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? 

Wednesday, February 4th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In this dynamic conversation, Megan will share a body of work in progress through the lens of Imbolc, alongside a field guide she’s been making.  Through her beautifully layered work, Megan will generously unearth her equally layered process, which uses photography, data, timing, and seasonal observations to mark rituals along the Celtic Wheel of the Year and the Lakota Medicine Wheel, thereby creating and documenting a modern family culture of both traditions. Can the act of making a photograph be sacred? As multicultural people, how do we make honorable relationships with ancestral paths? Ours, and others? 

Wednesday, January 28th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Photography demands that we be in relationship with forces far beyond our control. Light shifts. Weather intervenes. The more-than-human world sets its own terms. The practice of Slow Looking offers a way to cozy up to our work, to be with it unhurriedly, and to notice what emerges when we stay a little longer than feels comfortable. During this gathering, we will engage in the practice of Slow Looking to learn how to talk about what we see and listen for what emerges.

Wednesday, January 21st, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Over the course of three years, David Walter Banks paddled 500 miles and spent 69 nights deep in the Okefenokee Swamp. His resulting book, Trembling Earth: A Transcendental Trip Through the Okefenokee, is part activism and part spiritual epiphany. For David, the Okefenokee is more than its biological wealth; it holds a mystical energy that renders its well-trodden waterways terra incognita to the first-time visitor. Trembling Earth captures not only what can be seen but also what can be felt: the unmistakable yet ineffable quality of this primordial space.

Wednesday, January 14th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

We will begin our exploration of Earth with photographers Mike Belleme and Lyn Swett Miller, both intimate with soil and the tender moments of life being made and unmade, composed and decomposed. Here we are invited to remember that the genus Homo is derived from the Latin word for “humus”—the dark, organic material that forms in soil. Together, we will ponder the depths that can be found in attending to Earth cycles and the role photography can play in awakening humility and returning us home to the ground of our being.

January 7th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

For the next twelve weeks, we invite our kin to envision the unique ways we weave meaning from the complexity and multiplicity of our earthbound experiences. What depths can be found in Earth’s cycles? Can embodied photographic practices inspire earthy perspectives that awaken the transformative power of humility, interdependence, connection, and care? Through practice, can we foster co-creative and collaborative partnerships with the living earth that invite mutual flourishing? Can photography be a compass that reorients us physically, spiritually, and ethically?

Wednesday, December 31st @ 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us for a spacious, heartfelt conversation and year-end ritual. Together, we will mark the end of 2025 with images and stories. We want to hear about your inner and outer explorations, questions, triumphs, challenges, and inspirations - and your creative intentions and projects for the coming year.