When Seeing Becomes Love: A Kinship Community Trio with Julie Williams Dixon, Kim Manley Ort, & Elizabeth Abrams
When Seeing Becomes Love: A Kinship Community Trio with Julie Williams Dixon, Kim Manley Ort, & Elizabeth Abrams
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, May 17th, 7 pm EDT
Join the Kinship community for our 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 and/or emerging work.
This month we will be speaking with Kim Manley Ort, Julie Williams Dixon, and Elizabeth Abrams as we ponder what it means to use photography as a tool for seeing, loving, and caring. Each of the photographers featured in this trio have been photographing and befriending a nearby place (sometimes daily) for many years.
Kim Manley Ort will be sharing a collection of images of Niagara-on-the-Lake and Lake Ontario where she has been photographing almost every day for the last 8 years. Kim’s work is a testament to the profound love and care that develops through attentive noticing.
Julie Williams Dixon has been photographing the land and the river in a small place called Kibler Valley for almost twenty years and has fallen in love with the place, in much the same way you might fall in love with another person. Her photography practice is part of why she feels so intimately connected to this rugged and relatively untouched landscape.
Elizabeth Abrams has been documenting the Chihuahuan Desert for the last five years. Her daily excursions explore the meaning and healing that comes from deeper connection with the natural world. Many of these photographs are included in her newly released Desert Reflection Cards, a 67-card deck that pairs photo images of the land, plants, and wildlife with prompts for reflection and contemplation.
Kim Manley Ort is a contemplative photographer and writer who has facilitated online and in-person workshops since 2010 and been writing on Substack since 2021. Her mission is to help others to nurture a deeper relationship with the places where they live through what is often overlooked or has become familiar. She lives in the small town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Julie Williams Dixon is a filmmaker and photographer who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, but passionately proclaims, and clings, to her roots in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia. She has degrees from Virginia Tech, and UNC at Chapel Hill, including a Masters in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures, but has never had any formal training in photography. For many years, she created visual media for corporate, educational and non-profit organizations, but now has time to focus on her own interests.
Elizabeth Abrams is a nature photographer and interdisciplinary artist from Southern New Mexico. Her photography is inspired by experiences of beauty and awe in the Chihuahuan Desert, and the idea of cultivating a relationship with the living landscape through photography and other art.
Would you like to share your work with the Kinship community? Monthly trios give you the opportunity to practice sharing your work with a wider audiences while experiencing the joy of a collaborative and dynamic thematic conversation. Please email us at info@kinship.photography and we can add you to one of our upcoming community trios.
