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.

Wednesday, November 27th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Convergence, Parker J Pfister’s current exhibition, is guided by curiosity, wonder, time, and life experiences. Sending a probe into his vast archive of photographs, over 3 decades worth, Parker Pfister discovers deeper meanings and purpose in his work. Photographic prints are combined in a hands-on tactile way, creating new narratives and questions. A once straightforward photograph is now a complex conversation.

Wednesday, November 20th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Please gather with us in the "tender light" of community as we share photographs from a time in our lives when we were struggling and the gentle light of love, beauty, or wholeness revealed itself to us through our photographic practice. Together we will explore the ways that photography can be a light, even, and sometimes especially, in darker moments.

Wednesday, November 13th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over the course of seven years, Tina Freeman photographed the Louisiana wetlands and Arctic and Antarctic glaciers. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from each place in a series of diptychs that function as little stories about climate change, ecological balance, and the connectedness of things across time and space. The large, color photographs in Lamentations make plain the crucial, threatening, and global dialogue between water in two physical states.

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. 

Wednesday, October 30th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

How can we use the camera to deepen our relationship with our own bodies through curiosity and attention? Can we use the camera to help us make space for the complexities of being alive? This practice group began with practicing self-directed deep attention and curiosity and ultimately considered the ways that our relationship and understanding of our own bodies influence the ways that we hold relationships between bodies.

Wednesday, October 23rd @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a portfolio share with Lyn Swett Miller. This tender body of work questions the essence of reciprocity between humans and the land while exploring the ways in which a ‘green’ death can reveal the beauty of our relationship between the human body and the earth’s body. Together we will explore whether photography can help us find redemption and joy in previously unmentionable settings.

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

It is time to weave our Between Bodies explorations into galleries, featured projects, exbhibitions, and collaborative shenanigans. Join us this Wednesday as we walk you through the submission process. Together we will begin building the schedule for community sharing, online galleries, and upcoming exhibitions.

Wednesday, October 9th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Fall is here, and it is time to gather our community together to look for unique ways to weave our Between Bodies explorations and photographs into featured galleries, collaborative calls, and exhibitions. Do you have work in process that would be a good fit for our featured artist gallery? Would you like to curate a collection of work? Are there curators or editors you would like us to invite to our community to help interpret the work we have created? Please join us!

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.