Wednesday, June 17th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

This spring, the Looking Slowly Practice Group met to develop tools for talking about what they see, separate from intention or authorship. They discovered that looking is also a form of listening, and that careful observation requires patience, curiosity, and a willingness to suspend judgment. Join us as we circle back to reflect on what the practice has opened up, what has stayed with them, and where it can take us.

Wednesday, June 10th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join Kinship artist-in residence Megan Driving Hawk in conversation with Kat Davis and Ashley Czajkowski about their recent bodies of work that explore memory, time, and family. Both artists use the medium of photography and incorporate adjacent techniques such as installation, performance, and alternative processes to explore identity and personal stories. 

Wednesday, June 3rd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

In Revisiting My Raising, Jillian Abir MacMaster shares how two separate photo series come together to explore her experience of being raised Catholic and as a Palestinian-American growing up around her grandmother. The two series are approached very differently; one through straight photography and the other through cyanotype studio photos incorporated with mixed media. Jillian Abir MacMaster is not only revisiting her raising, she is reclaiming it.

Wednesday, May 27th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join Erik Mace as he shares new work born from an ongoing inquiry into photography's relationship to truth — and what survives when memories fall apart. For the past six years, Erik has been introducing corruption into image files, feeding photographs back through their own data, letting digital photographs reorganize, decay, or come apart. In this new exploration of work, he has turned that process on an archive of images he could least afford to lose.

Wednesday, May 20th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As photographers, we co-create with Time in a multiplicity of ways. Over the next twelve months, we have invited you to time-travel with us through one or more of the following three ‘doorways’: Deep Time, Inhabited Time, and Time-out-of-Time. Together we will journey into photographic explorations that experiment with making our relationship to Time more visible and intentional. For this open community conversation we are eager to hear how the questions and explorations of Time might be showing up in your imagination and your creative life

Wednesday, May 13th at 7 pm EDT on Zoom
Join us for a practice group meet and greet, ask questions, and find the practice group that best supports your creative practice. Attendees of the open house will get early access to practice group registration.

Wednesday, May 6th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of our newest call for engagement Time. As photographers, we co-create with Time in a multiplicity of ways. We invite you to time-travel with us through three ‘doorways’ of time: Deep Time, Inhabited Time, and Time-out-of-Time.

Wednesday, April 29th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Interested in joining a space where your photography work matters? A community where people are as interested in your practice as they are in their own. We will be hosting an online open house to introduce you to Kinship and help you navigate our community's rich ecosystem ahead of our next big call-for-engagement. We would love to get to know you, and for you to get to know us! 

Wednesday, April 22nd @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

On Earth Day, you are invited to join Gavin Van Horn, co-editor of the Elementals book series, and John Hausdoerffer, the editor of volume five, An Elemental Life, for our final Elementals gathering. At this confluence of air, fire, water, and earth, we will bring the elements into conversation with one another by asking the practice-oriented question, What is an elemental life?

Sunday, April 19th @ 3 pm EDT on Zoom

An Elemental Year was a recurring seasonal practice group that drew creative inspiration from land-based calendars—where time moves in non-linear rhythms with the Earth’s seasons and travels in circles and spirals. Together, we used embodied rituals, contemplative practices, deep reflection, and playful intuition to explore our fundamental relationships with the elements. Join us as we share a confluence of air, fire, water, and earth through photographs and reflections, and contemplate creative ways to carry the elements with us as we continue to explore and live an elemental life.

Wednesday, April 15th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

For nearly a year, we have invited photographers from around the globe to explore their relationship with the elements. As we moved through the elemental year together, each season brought a new elemental focus that guided our discussions and practices. As we wind down our elemental year, we invite our kin to gather and share their experiences.

Wednesday, April 8th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Paula Damasceno will take us on a journey through her artist book Initiation—an elemental work shaped by touch, repetition, and diasporic memory. Through its text and Riso-printed photographs, the work invites a haptic, slowed engagement where form and content continuously inform one another.

Wednesday, April 1st, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over six weeks, the Earth Through the Lens of Time practice group questioned how Earth could be perceived across different time scales, from brief to geologic. And how, as humans, we place ourselves in this vast span of time that encompasses the history of the Earth.

Wednesday, March 25th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a rich conversation about objects as portals to memory and meaning. For six weeks, the Objects Embodied practice group took their objects for walks and had conversations with them, always exploring the relationship between materiality and the ethereal nature of things.

Wednesday, March 18th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us as we celebrate our community’s engagement with Elemental: Earth. This season brought us into a relationship with Earth as living matter–soil, ground, and home. What depths did we find in Earth’s cycles? Did embodied photographic practices inspire earthy perspectives that awakened us to the transformative power of interdependence, connection, and care? Through practice, did we foster co-creative and collaborative partnerships with the living earth that invited mutual flourishing?

Wednesday, March 11th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Over the last six weeks, photographers in the Deep Forces practice group have used the rock cycle and plate tectonics as inspiration for their photography. Melting and crystallizing, slow flow, erosion, sedimentation, and burial. Coming together, splitting apart, abrading. Together, they explored how internal processes and external experiences meet in their photographs.

Wednesday, March 4th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Lesly Deschler Canossi's Substack, Widening the Lens, offers bite-sized, accessible pieces about photo and visual culture. Her writing has been a lighthouse for many of us at Kinship as we navigate the complicated and painful questions of this time. What role can photography play? Where has the medium gone wrong? And most importantly, how can beauty and art become acts of care in our current synthetic-image era?

Wednesday, February 25th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Over six weeks, the photographers in Bodies Connected by Earth practice group explored how their creative practices could learn from the depth and complexity of Earth’s processes. Drawing on disability and ecological studies, they considered how deep rest can be a creative and transformative force.

Wednesday, February 18th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we are inviting you to participate in a community show and share that celebrates photography and love. Love is an invitation to the transformative work of justice, as well as the tender and relational work of attention and care. How do you photograph through a lens of love? If you were to imagine making a love letter through photographs, what would you photograph?

Wednesday, February 11th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us in conversation with Daniel Hansche as they share their unique experiences of animal tracking & perception, and how these skills invite new ways of seeing and responding to nature’s unfolding story with greater ease, depth, and clarity.  For millennia, trackers have cultivated an exquisite vision of the world far surpassing the original function of providing sustenance and safety. Similarly, photographers have long-developed acute observation skills, expressing and reproducing what they see and feel. What do these embodied practices have to offer each other?