Photographing Our Complicated Bodies: A Between Bodies Circle Back
A Between Bodies Practice Group Circle Back
Photographing Our Complicated Bodies: A Between Bodies Circle Back
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, October 30th, 7 pm EDT
How can we use the camera to deepen our relationship with our own bodies through curiosity and attention? Can we use the camera to help us make space for the complexities of being alive? Participants in this practice group have been exploring self portraiture as a way to honor complicated bodies, sick bodies, aging bodies, healing bodies, grieving bodies, changing bodies, marginalized bodies, gender diverse bodies, more-than-human bodies.
Beginning with practicing self-directed deep attention and curiosity, this practice group ultimately considered the ways that our relationship to and understanding of our own bodies influence the ways that we hold relationships between bodies.
Join us for an intimate and complex conversation about what can happen when we turn our attention to the relationships we hold with the world.
Circle Back Participants:
Chris Warner-Carey is a photographer living in the coastal community of Half Moon Bay, California. His photographic interests derive from his location on the Pacific Ocean, with its diverse communities of plants, animals, and humans who live, work and interact with each other. Chris experiments with alternative photographic processes, and would love to have a bigger darkroom.
Frances Bukovsky is a photographer working with the complicated relationships between bodies, places, and identities, particularly within the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. They use photography to ask questions and deepen their connection to the world around them. Bukovsky lives in Marshall, NC.
George Lottermoser lives in Manitowoc, WI; where he makes photographs, drawings, water, oil, & encaustic wax paintings, small sculptural objects, sourdough bread, and music, using various simple instruments.
Born in Milwaukee, WI. Acquired a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Worked as a Free Lance Photojournalist through the 1960s-70s; and as a self-employed Art Director, Graphic Designer, & Commercial Photographer through the 80s up until relatively recently. He taught, Visual Design for Interactive Multimedia, as part-time adjunct faculty, for a dozen semesters, at Columbia College Chicago.
Greg Garner is an artist and writer living in Asheville, NC. Current work includes Poem Boxes addressing identity and trauma that combine poetry, photographs and found objects. Recent collages juxtapose his love of being in the Appalachian Mountains and questions about acceptance in the larger region.
Katie Dickson is a seasoned photographer and educator with over a decade of experience working with brands like Wrangler and Hanes. Specializing in product and corporate portrait photography, her work has been featured in publications such as Food52 and Real Simple. Katie is passionate about inspiring creativity through her craft.
Ruth Steinberg is a visual artist who uses the photography and other media to open doors of conversation about challenging topics such a death and dying, aging, and illness. Through visual storytelling she examines facets of dignity, resilience, and presence, particularly with the elderly and other less-seen populations. Her work has been shown across North America and internationally including the Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa, LACP: Centre of Photography in California, PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, and FotoNostrum, Mediterranean House of Photography in Barcelona. In 2017, as part of an intergenerational chain of mentorship, Steinberg was selected to exhibit in Continuum: Karsh Award artists welcome a new generation. In 2022 she received the first place for the Figureworks Exhibition and in 2023 she was a Photolucida Critical Mass 200 finalist.
Yvonne Dalschen is a German photographer living in Oak Ridge, TN. She is interested in history of place, cultural landscapes and digital experimentation. Her images have been exhibited from Knoxville, TN, to Sydney, NSW. She has been a member of the Six Feet Project / Kinship Collective since 2020.
