Wednesday, June 28th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

With approximately five billion photographs made every day, it can be utterly overwhelming to search and sift through other people's photos. Enter the archive! Artist and photographer Eric William Carroll will walk through his experience collaborating with archivists & archives and incorporating appropriated imagery into his own creative practice.

Wednesday, June 21st at 7 pm EDT

The Kinship Relay is an experiment in the playful magic and alchemy that can happen when we visually communicate across a network of kin. Like the childhood game of telephone, the Kinship Relay began with one community member contributing an image without knowledge of its journey. The next participant had 48 hours to submit a response to that image, and so on. Join us as the photographers share their unique results and the spin-off creative projects that have emerged from this collaboration.

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

Join us for a conversation with Morganna Magee as we take a deep dive into her unique practice and the making of her book Extraordinary Experiences. Here, Morganna explores the supersensory phenomenon that arises during bereavement where grief and loss are made tangible as emotions, memories, and dreams embedded in photographs. Together, through this dynamic conversation, we will explore the mystical, primal, and sublime edges of photography.

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

For Dora Somosi, photography and pilgrimage are interwoven into one creative gesture. Her impressionistic imagery surfs an emotional riptide beneath which she explores and wrestles with big existential questions. Dora will be sharing work from two project—one finished and one emerging— while giving us a generous glimpse into her unique and varied photographic process and the cyclical way her projects unfold over time. Together we will ponder how our own photography practice has shaped and transformed who we are and who we are becoming.

Wednesday, May 31st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for part II of our conversation with Dawn Roe as she shares more about her project DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation. Through this thoughtful conversation Dawn will be taking us further along the path of her site-responsive practice while sharing how a varied understandings of descent – as passage, downward movement, decline, sinking, legacy, lineage, origination – helps us visualize our human-made worlds as a continuum, suggesting both the promise and peril of ecological longevity.

Wednesday, May 24th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

This week, we will be speaking with Lynne Buchanan about her new book The Poetry of Being which features photographs and poetry created by Lynne while navigating the unique challenges of caring for an aging and dying mother. Her stunning black and white landscape photographs and haiku poems celebrate Lynne’s approach to seeing and honoring the sensory and emotional elements of the landscape.

Wednesday, May 17th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

During this months Kinship members trio, 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 nearby places (sometimes daily) for many years while cultivating beauty, meaning and even healing.

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.