January 8th 2025 @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

What defines a body of work? What holds it together? When is it complete? After working together for nearly one year, seven members of the Pacing & Perseverance practice group will share their experiences of working on a number of long term projects and how they balanced their work alongside everything else that happens in life.

December 18th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join poet Meghan Sterling and seven Kinship photographers as they explore the ways that ekphrastic poetry can deepen our relationship with our own photographs and photography practice. While ekphrastic poetry is often defined as the writing of poetry about works of visual art, the tradition is truly focused on the close observation of objects and experiences. This makes ekphrastic poetry a beautiful venue for deepening one’s relationship to one’s photographs.

December 11th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Over seven meetings, this practice group explored relationships surrounding a focus of their choosing, considering physical, emotional and visual contexts, and responding to unexpected disruptions.Fungi, trails, trees, and other plants led to new ways of thinking about and sharing nature’s intelligence, empathy, and connections.

December 4th @ 7 pm ET via Zoom

Between January and November 2024, seven members of the Kinship Photography Collective gathered thirteen times to ‘reimagine’ loss and grief. Part of the year-long theme “Between Bodies,” this practice group wondered if there was a visual language for loss and how patiently dwelling with grief might also offer opportunities for nurturing community.

November 6th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

In this practice group, participants explored the feelings of place. Guided by Trebbe Johnson, practice group participants worked with hyperawareness (or “fierce consciousness”) to more deeply explore the reactions that places stirred in them. Together they opened the lenses of their imaginations and emotional bodies to contemplate the profound relationships they have with locations that they hold and are held by them—creating images that reveal a powerful, often mysterious, and always intimate world. 

May 1st @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

Is there a visual language for loss and grief? Can photography capture what is already lost or prepare us for future losses? In this two-part practice group, we've been exploring our unique experiences with loss and grief by paying attention to light, abstraction, emotion and our embodied experiences. The deeper we go, the more we play.

April 17th @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

Where do our bodies end and other bodies begin? How does our understanding of the edges of our being influence us? Join us for a practice group circle back that will ponder these questions and more as participants share their explorations of what we consider bodies.

March 13th @ 7 pm EDT via Zoom

Have you ever gotten stuck in your head or started spiraling aound all the creative decisions one has to make? Did it bring your practice to a standstill? This practice group circle back will help you rethink those standstill moments. Join eleven image makers as they celebrate randomness and collaboration through prompts that were designed to stir the imagination and blur the roles of artist, editor/curator and audience. Together we will explore and share fresh ways to liberate our creative practice.