Renewal: A Kinship Community Trio with Anna Norton, Jon Stuart, Lyn Swett Miller
Renewal: A Kinship Community Trio with Anna Norton, Jon Stuart & Lyn Swett Miller
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, April 26th, 7 pm EDT
AEST 9 am, April 27th
Join the Kinship community for a new monthly offering (the third Wednesday of the month) where we celebrate a trio of Kinship community members and invite them into a dynamic conversation about their personal projects.
This month we will be following the thread of Renewal that weaves through the work of Kinship members Anna Gage Norton, Jon Stuart & Lyn Swett Miller. In conversation with this trio of photographers we will ponder the unique and extraordinary ways that each of their photography practices have inspired love, care, and restoration.
Anna Gage Norton will be sharing work from her long term project On Nochaway, where she is documenting the restoration of 250 acres of neglected farmland that has been in her family for generations. This project documents this land and its restoration back to the native longleaf pine.
Jon Stuart will be sharing work from his pandemic inspired project Stillwater. This project documents his explorations to the western edge of Ottawa. Squeezed between the new DND campus, the 417, a chip manufacturer and a new LRT station, a debilitated wetland is being brought back to life. Here, Jon documents a next generation landscape – inherently man-made yet wild and generative, supporting both the local ecology and the health of the water flowing across the city.
Lyn Swett Miller will be sharing her project 370 N. Plainfield Road - An Intimate Portrait, a collection of reverent images of her local landfill. While this unseen place is a destination of last resort for all that we throw away, it is also a living and breathing ecosystem, where people and machine sculpt a mountain out of rocks, wood chips, construction debris, toys, clothes and other detritus from our lives. Lyn’s images become a meditations on the power of regeneration, transformation and renewal.
Would you like to share your work with the Kinship community? Please email us at info@kinship.photography and we can add you to one of our upcoming community trios.
Anna Gage Norton received her MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2005. Her most recent and ongoing work documenting her family’s longleaf pine restoration in Baker County, Georgia, is featured in Aint-Bad Magazine, Murze Magazine and Oxford American Magazine’s “Eyes on the South,” and the upcoming Fall issue of Southern Cultures Snapshot: Climate. She was a 2021 Puffin Foundation Grant recipient and 2022 Photography Resident at The Bascom, Highlands, NC. A native of south Georgia, she now lives in Western North Carolina where she continues her work in photography, videography, and education.
Jon Stuart is a photo-based artist working and living in Ottawa on the unceded territories of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. Jon uses photography to collect and process delicate evidence to reveal meaning and sublimity in the apparently mundane. His images are rich portrayals of events that played out before the photographer arrived. Each scene contains clues to existence, presence, and place, not merely documenting physical locations but scenes charged with significance. His detailed photographs seek to draw the viewer’s eye from object to subject, shifting their view from a “space on the ground” to a “place in the mind.
Lyn Swett Miller is a micro-climate photographer happiest mucking around with the detritus of her life. While investigating compost, landfills and other aspects of our material world, she creates visual meditations on the power of regeneration, transformation and renewal. Miller lives in Hanover, NH where she has spent the past fifteen years trying to figure out what it takes for a suburban family of four to live sustainably. She is a founding member of the Sustainable Hanover Committee and has found a voice for her activism through photography.
