Wednesday, Sept. 25th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Kari Varner is a Binghamton, New York-based artist who utilizes a variety of historical and experimental photographic processes in explorations of industry and human presence upon the landscape. Drawing from the environment as both subject and material, her images are often formed from substances enacting change in the land and water. Together we will explore the dialogue between photographs and materiality, along with the value we assign to altered environments.

Wednesday, Sept. 18th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Jade Doskow, as the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park in New York’s Staten Island, has been creating a massive photographic record of this notorious site as it transforms from the world’s largest household waste dump to one of New York’s largest parks. In today’s world, with an increasingly fraught relationship between humanity and the natural world, can an understanding start to shift of what a natural parkland looks like and how it functions?

Wednesday, Sept. 11th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join artist Brenda Spielmann as she shares her project Luminaries, a project where she photographs para-athletes and hand-embroider their images with metallic thread on photographic paper. Rooted in her personal connection to the disabled community through her son, who was born with a disability, this project emphasizes Brenda’s belief in the power of representation and the significance of diverse perspectives.

Wednesday, Sept. 4th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for our final summer peer review featuring work by Barron Northrup and Tracy Warren. Tracy will be sharing work from her newest project where she places self portraits into the landscapes she photographs. Barron will be sharing work from "Buddy you're dying and I hate that for you," which focuses on the past and present impacts of the covid pandemic. Please join us.

Wednesday, August 28th at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a practice group meet and greet, ask questions, and find the practice group that best supports your creative practice. Attendees of the open house will get early access to practice group registration.

Wednesday, August 21st @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Are you working on a photobook or zine and have a burning question you’d like answered? Join Erik Mace for a community skillshare on photobooks, where he’ll lead a discussion on all things book-related. Together, we’ll discuss photobook ideation, design, or production, combining the best of a Q&A and a community-driven skillshare.

Wednesday, August 14th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for our fifth peer review featuring work by Chris Allen and Sasha Chapman. Chris will be sharing recent work of a multi-year project exploring the planetary element of Water in it's various phases. Sasha will be sharing her newest project that features ice as an archive and its retreat as a form of memory loss.

Wednesday, July 31st, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for our fourth peer review featuring work by Greg Garner and Sara Swaty. Greg will be sharing recent work from a long-term that examines interior parking decks in natural light. Sara will be sharing her project Samakara: Bodywork a self-portrait project that documents her medical and emotional progress on a lifelong journey of a physical enigma / disability.

Wednesday, July 17th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for our third peer review featuring work by Paul Wanta & Susan Patrice. As a photographer and naturalist, Paul’swell-honed skills as a tracker and wayfinder inform his photography practice, inviting photographs that are both familiar and surprising. Susan will be sharing work from her ongoing project The Land of My Body where she ponders the stories the land wants to tell and whether art can offer both healing and ecological reparation.

Wednesday, July 10th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us this week for our second summer skill-share. This week we will be exploring self portraiture. What compels us to turn the camera around and photograph ourselves? Through embodied photographic practices, what can we learn from making images of ourselves? What can emerge between us and the camera, between us and the viewer? What makes an image a self portrait? Is it the presence of the photographer in the frame, or can we make an image of ourselves where our physical body is absent? Join us as we share photographs, process, and inspiring prompts.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for our second summer review with George Lottermoser & Frances Bukovsky. George will be sharing his project Mirror, Mirror where he places a mirror between lens and subject allowing him to document two different events and two different spaces from a singular point of view. Frances will be sharing work from their project Upheaval which seeks to unravel the complicated relationships between body, place, and memory as impacted by trauma and illness.

Wednesday, June 26th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Benjamin Dimmitt about his powerful and heartbreaking book An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands that explores the salt-damaged sawgrass savannas and spring creeks of the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast. For Benjamin, creating this book was a way of examining and reckoning with ecosystem loss in a place he knows well and loves.

Join us for our first summer review with Anna G. Norton. Anna will be sharing her long-term documentary project that features longleaf pine restoration on her family property in Baker County, GA which she is crafting into a book. Like many of us who are working on long-term projects, Anna is looking for guidance on what to keep and what to let go of. Does including a larger number of images help capture the complexity of the story or water it down? Where is the line between enough and too much?

Wednesday, June 12th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us this week for the first in a series of Kinship skill-shares. This week we will be exploring lumen printing and showing you how to make your own prints at home. Lumen prints are photograms made by placing an object, often organic materials, on photographic paper and exposing the paper to sunlight (no darkroom is needed). This simple, open, and experimental process produces luminous, magical, and often surprising results.

Join us this summer for peer supported project and portfolio reviews. Peer reviews are not critiques but a chance to share your work within a highly supportive environment where you can ask thoughtful questions about your work in progress and receive equally thoughtful reflections in return. Photographers of all levels are invited to share work. Would you like to share your work this summer?

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, May 29th, 7 pm EDT

At Kinship, community engagement is rhizomatic, interconnected, and collaborative. Our calls-for-engagment, programs, and practice groups, are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. What would best supports your practice this summer? Please lend your voice and vision to this weeks dynamic conversation and help us shape our summer season.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over the past month, Kinship community members have been responding to three prompts adapted from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown’s book Coming Back to Life and recently featured on We Are The Great Turning podcast.

Join us as Kinship community members share the photographs and reflections that arose in response to the prompts.

Wednesday, May 15th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Many of us yearn to deepen our intimacy and connection with the world. Please join us as seven photographers explore and contemplate the role that photography can play as a tool for deep listening and intimate conversing.

Wednesday, May 8th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

The Goodall Visiting Fellows Program in Glendale, SC invites creative responses to our landscape in a former textile mill village. We’ll hear from the 2023-24 residents about their experiences at six natural, cultural, and historical reflection sites in the Preserve and neighboring village as we look at and listen to their work.

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.