Wednesday, May 10th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

During the month of April, twenty-five photographers of all levels celebrated the transformative power of photography by joining Kinship for a series of events and workshops held in the LivLab space in downtown Sylva, North Carolina. Community members and workshop facilitators created images collectively, culminating with a pop-up group show that explored all the wondrous ways we are connected to our natural world through photography. Join us for this Circle Back, where we will present and discuss the work we created together, with rich conversations between the community, facilitators, and the natural world.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Glendale Shoals Preserve in Spartanburg, South Carolina, invites artists, writers, and interdisciplinary wizards to stay for between two weeks and several months to reflect on our post-industrial landscape through their unique perspectives, as Goodall Visiting Fellows. The former cotton mill site, a river crossing, a cemetery, the remains of an old homestead, and two ecologically important sites serve as focal points. Since September 2022, 8 creators have investigated, explored, and reflected through various media. Join us as Kaye Savage facilitates sharing and conversation about the rich work that is arising there.

Wednesday, April 26th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

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 exploring the theme of Renewal with 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 our photography practice can inspire love, care, play, restoration, and renewal.

Wednesday, April 19th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

As we continue to explore what it means to partner and collaborate with the natural world and each other, we will be speaking with artists from Recovery, a highly collaborative eco-arts project exploring ecology and art alongside the work of citizen scientists in response to the 'Black Summer' fires in the Blue Mountains, Australia. We will speak with curator and creative producer Justin Morrissey, poet and photographer Fiona Vaughan, and visual artist and printmaker Freedom Wilson. Together we will explore the many ways that art builds resilience and how the power of collaboration (across mediums) might prepare us to creatively respond to catastrophic climate-related events in the future.

Wednesday, April 5th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

At Kinship, learning is rhizomatic, interconnected, and collaborative. Our weekly artist talks, calls for engagement, practice groups, and curated galleries are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. We want to hear from you. What best supports you on your journey to kinship? Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our (ever) emerging photography collective.

Wednesday, March 29th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Many of us long for a way to make a difference. Sometimes, the most important work is as close as our front yards. This week we will talk with Vera Saltzman and Sue Bland, co-creators of “where will the frogs sing?” Together they explore what it means to hold a deep relationship with nearby land while transforming their internalized colonial mindsets and creating opportunities for public engagement and conversation. Join us as we explore what it means to care for the land that cares for us. And how witnessing and attending to even the smallest remnants of land is work that truly matters.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Please join us for a rich conversation with Lynn Alleva Lilley. Lynn’s projects, including her artist photobook Deep Time, inspire contemplation of time, creation, evolution, and interspecies connection. Together we will explore what deep time looks and feels like in the present and the role that contemplation, photographic curiosity, and research can play in our processes and projects.

Wednesday, March 15th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic conversation on geology, deep time, and alternative interspecies possibilities with Oscar Salguero. Together we will explore the unique and powerful roles that exhibitions, books, and libraries can play in shifting cultural perspectives by helping deepen respect and understanding for the more-than-human worlds.

Wednesday, March 8th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Trebbe Johnson, artist and author of Radical Joy for Hard Times, invites us to imagine new ways to attend to hurt and broken places. For Trebbe, learning to engage artfully is a radical, courageous, and loving act. Join us as Trebbe shares what it means to“gaze even here” and how this creates paths to meaningful, creative, and inclusive ways to express sorrow while creating beauty and even joy amid ruin.

Wednesday, March 1st, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Are you interested in collaborative photography projects that explore the power and beauty of creating together? Join us on Wednesday for collaboration in action. During our Zoom conversation, we will explore collaborative photography projects from around the globe as inspiration and then collectively design the first in a series of Kinship collaborative calls for engagement.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Long-term creative projects (5+ years) can be exceptionally rewarding in terms of the depth of one's research, the close relationships formed, and the types of imagery that can only be developed over years of working with the same subject. That said, long-term projects can also be the most difficult to sustain, creatively and financially. Join Eric William Carroll & other members of the Kinship Photography Collective for a community discussion on how to help foster long-term projects that avoid burnout, exhaustion, and boredom.

Wednesday, February 15th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Daniella Zalcman is an award-winning documentary photographer whose career has incorporated community and representation through her work as a co-founder of Women Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and We Women (where she is also the creative director), a member of Authority Collective and Diversify Photo and a co-author of the Photo Bill of Rights. Her focus on community creates space for under-represented voices in the photographic community and asks questions about whose stories are told and by whom.

Wednesday, February 1st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Ben Depp has been engaging in a time-intensive conversation with the bayous and wetlands of southern Louisiana from a powered paraglider. His recently released book Tide Lines is an intense bird's-eye survey that depicts south Louisiana from an unfamiliar perspective, prompting the viewer to reconsider the value of this vanishing, otherworldly landscape. Join us for a dynamic conversation with Ben Depp as we explore his unique approach to photography and his commitment to the fragile coastal region he calls home.

Wednesday, January 25th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Can we bend time back on itself through image, text, and narrative? Photographer Raymond Thompson Jr is aspiring to do just that. By creating through lines that move across a 240-year period of history, the sights and locations in his photographs become metaphoric portals in the landscape. Join us for Part II as Raymond generously shares new questions, photographs, and creative revelations from his unfolding project.

Wednesday, January 18th on Zoom @ 7pm ET

Please join us for a thoughtful conversation with Dawn Surratt. Together we will explore how community collaboration can enhance our photographic practice as well as the quiet and tender ways that creative rituals contribute to community healing.

Wednesday, Wednesday, January 11th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

For the next four weeks, we will explore rhizomatic relationships–the multiple and non-hierarchical threads that connect us through interdependent partnerships. Together we will explore how photography can help us find new ways of collaborating and making meaning together.

January 4th, 2023 on Zoom @ 7pm ET

This livestream event features a video walkthrough of the With Rapture & Astonishment exhibition, conversations with the artists, and an overview of how you can participate in the Bartram Trail community archive project.

Saturday, December 31st @ 7 pm ET

Join us for a spacious, heartful conversation and year-end ritual. Together we will mark the end of 2022 with images and stories. We want to hear about your inner and outer explorations, questions, triumphs, challenges, and inspirations - and your creative intentions for the coming year. Please bring photographs and stories to share!

Wednesday, December 14th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

This week we will celebrate the wisdom and work of two practice groups. Join a collection of photographers as they explore Embracing Chaos & Combining Text and Image to Tell a Story

Wednesday, December 7th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

This week we will celebrate the wisdom and work of two practice groups. Join ten photographers as they explore Reconciling Extremes & Seeing Beauty.