Wednesday, November 29th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

For this multi-textured conversation, Kate Breakey will be sharing images from her retrospective book Painted Light which encompasses a quarter-century of prolific image-making that reveals the wide range of Kate’s creative explorations. Kate will be offering insight into her creative process and transformative journey alongside personal accounts of "the things that matter most" to her life as an artist–among them her fascination with classical European painting, her close connection to the world of science, and her heartfelt love of the natural world, which began during her childhood in rural Australia.

Wednesday, November 15th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a multifaceted conversation with Executive Editor, Ayşe Erginer and Art Director & Deputy Editor, Emily Wallace as they take us through Southern Cultures’ newest issue Snapshot: Climate. In more than 60 photographs, this moving and inspiring issue weaves images and words into a complex conversation that offers a deep, diverse, and embodied look at climate impacts across the South.

Wednesday, November 8th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic and exploratory conversation with Susan Harbage Page as she shares more than 15 years of meditations and explorations on the U.S.-Mexican border. As a socially engaged citizen Susan Harbage Page uses a variety of media including photography, performative interventions, sculpture, video, works on paper, and more. Here, her very embodied practice questions how race, nationality, socioeconomics, gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of our identities impact our bodies and our ability to access place, have our basic needs and rights met, and experience a sense of belonging, safety, and freedom.

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

As a photographer, Normand Rajotte has been continuously exploring the same forest in southeastern Quebec, Canada for over twenty years. Little by little, image after image, Rajotte has taken root in these woods, to the point of merging with them. Join us for an intimate conversation about the importance of feeling a place both visually and physically and how witnessing long-term changes can alter what we believe we recognize. Together we will explore the importance of embodied place-making and the unique power of creating bodies of work over long periods of time.

Wednesday, October 23rd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join Kinship as we launch Between Bodies our newest collaborative call-for-engagement . At Kinship we believe that learning to live artfully on a damaged planet requires big questions—and big circles—that welcome multiple and varied perspectives. We invite you to join us on our next creative journey as we explore the connections and communings that emerge between both human and more-than-human bodies. Your participation in this conversation will help us shape the resources, practice groups, and prompts that will guide our collaborative process. Please join us for this exciting next chapter.

Wednesday, October 18th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Ansley West Rivers as she takes us on a photographic journey across land and water. Ansley’s photographic artistry and multi-layered approach to the medium invites viewers to engage in a dialogue about our vital connection to the natural world and our proper place within it. Ansley’s sensitive work captures the beauty and wildness of the landscapes we inhabit, aiming to spark meaningful conversations about the fundamental sources of life itself.

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

Join us for an enlightening artist talk and conversations with Jeremy Dennis, a talented photographer and artist hailing from the Shinnecock Indian Nation. In this captivating presentation, Jeremy will delve into the powerful intersection of photography and activism, weaving together his indigenous heritage and artistic prowess to create thought-provoking works that challenge the status quo. Through his lens, he explores themes that resonate deeply with contemporary issues, shedding light on important social and environmental concerns. .

Wednesday, October 4th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

For photographers, combining text and images can seem easy until we decide to dive in and try it. In this practice group, we created work together that resulted in a diverse moments of inspiration and much art-in-progress. Join Morgain Bailey, Liz Titone and practice group participants for an hour where they talk about our process, share work and invite the audience to participate in a visualization exercise designed to inspire empathy and creative response.

Wednesday, September 27th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic and rich conversation with Jesse Clark as we explore how the camera can be used as a tool to express ourselves, reshaping how the world might perceive us aside from how we may perceive the world.

Jesse Clark will be sharing how he uses his photographic practice to showcase positive representations of Blackness through various works from his photo series My Beautiful, Everglow, and To Sting Like A Bee.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, September 20th, 7 pm EDT

It is time to gather our community back together for a whole new new series of thematic questions and calls for engagement. Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our photography collective. If you are new to the Kinship community, this is the perfect time to ask us questions about how it all works, and where your work and photography practice might fit in.

Wednesday, September 13th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join Katie Mooney Buzby, the Executive Director of the Peter Bullough Foundation, and an eclectic line of photo-based alums including Kinship member Frances Bukovsky. Together they will be sharing their experiences with the power of artist residencies and the role they can play as you further your practice, test out ideas, and create or complete projects.

Wednesday, September 6th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join artist & visual researcher Jake Eshelman as we explore why photography is an essential tool in shaping our ecological behaviors, policies, and attitudes. Together we will explore how our photographic practices are uniquely able to elegantly and effectively (re)shape worldviews, engage viewers, and encourage ecological problem-solving.

Wednesday, August 30th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a presentation of works by twenty women photographers closely associated with Mexico, presented by BMC/MX Project Director Eric Baden. Spanning a century to include the present day, the works of these photographers resonate with contemporary issues in the arts and speak to broader cultural, societal, and political concerns.

Wednesday, August 21st, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

With an immense amount of sensitivity and respect, Steve Mann has been celebrating and photographing indigenous communities for over 20 years including producing We Won’t Bow Down, a documentary featuring the culture of Mardi Gras Indians. His newest photography exhibition Indian Relay, was photographed at the 2022 Sheridan Wyoming Rodeo World Championship Indian Relay Race. The photographs feature teams from the northern plains nations such as Crow, Blackfeet, Oglala Sioux, and Northern Cheyenne. Steve will be joined by Tyson Sampson (they/them/he/him) an Eastern Band Cherokee Indian (ᎠᏳᏫᏯ ᎨᏯᏔᎯᎤᏁᏉᎳᏗᏍᎩ) who has made multi-faceted contributions on everything from documenting endangered language to sharing wild food practices and cultural sensibilities about Cherokee cuisine and culture.

Wednesday, August 16th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join the Kinship Photography Collective for a virtual reception and artist talk celebrating the most recent iteration of the With Rapture and Astonishment exhibition currently on display at the University of Georgia Circle Gallery. Join us for a tour of the show and a conversation with the curators and artists about shaping and reshaping exhibitions in response to new spaces and communities.

Wednesday, August 2nd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for an in-depth discussion on the significance of place. With Elizabeth Ransom as our guide, we will explore how alternative forms of photography can be used to navigate stories of global movement and migration.  Based between the Pacific Northwest and the South of England artist, researcher, and educator Elizabeth Ransom draws from her own personal experience of migration to visualize the complex and individual understanding of transnationality.

Wednesday, July 26th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Lesly Deschler Canossi's multidimensional practice includes making, mentoring, and rewriting photo history. As an independent photo educator and mother artist with a strong urge to widen the lens of representation, she works to amplify a range of photo practitioners who have been omitted or written out of its rich history. Join us for a deep and layered conversation on creativity and representational justice as we explore photography’s multiple histories: as an artistic medium, as social text, as a technological tool, and as a cultural practice.

Wednesday, July 19th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a Kinship Duo with Beate Sass and Ruth Steinberg, two photographers who are lovingly photographing the bittersweet moments that arise in their relationships with their aging parents. Together we will explore the ways in which photography encourages us to find beauty in the most familiar places while calling us to love life as it is.

Wednesday, July 12th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a dynamic conversation with Matthew López-Jensen as we examine the role of documentation in art and activism. Matthew will be sharing several current overlapping landscape projects as well as a quick look at The Work and The Water, his current project as artist-in-residence with the Erie Canal. Together we will explore how pictures instigate change and how photographic documentation elevates the process of community engagement.

Wednesday, July 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.

Join us for our Summer community conversation where we will put our collaborative skills to work as we imagine the next installment of our Kinship collaborative experiment. Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our next collabortive call for engagement.