May 21 - June 25th 2026
Thursdays, 7 - 8:30 pm EDT for 6 weeks

This practice group treats Slow Looking as an inquiry into Kinship's three doorways: Deep Time, Inhabited Time, and Time-out-of-Time. By staying with images long enough for meaning to shift and settle, we ask how photographs might make our relationship to time more visible, and what it reveals when we let that relationship remain open, playful, and unresolved.

June 18 - July 16th
Thursdays, 7 - 9 pm EDT for 5 weeks.

Photography is a time-based medium, and its ability to distill action into a single frame is best summed up in the concept of the “decisive moment.” But how else can the passage of time be expressed through still photography? And what types of time scales can be explored through the medium? In this practice group, we’ll discuss strategies by which we can depict atypical time scales and concepts photographically.

Begins May 19th (Group is Full)
Third Tuesday of the month, 7 - 8:30 pm EDT (for 12 sessions)

This practice group will meet monthly for the full year, providing opportunities for sustained attention to long-term projects, a fresh start each month, or a combination. The rhythm of the group will provide intentional space for expansive practice as well as project and/or portfolio development. Prompts and questions will encourage exploration of the sub-themes of the Deep Time doorway.

May 26th - June 30th 2026
Tuesdays, 7 - 8:30 pm EDT for 6 weeks

This six-session practice group offers an introduction to contemplative photography practices that help us attune and synchronize with the timing, rhythms, and cadence of the places and more-than-human kin we photograph.Together, we will ponder whether repeatedly attending to the same place over time can awaken new levels of curiosity, wonder, and magic while inspiring new ways of seeing and caring.

Begins May 21st (runs for 12-months)
Thursdays, 1:00-3:00 pm EDT

How can ritual become a portal through which one can access deep time, inhabited time, and time-out-of time simultaneously? In this practice group we will develop unique field guides to create authentic daily ritual practices attuned with seasonal rhythms. We will find inspiration in short readings and quotes on themes of legacy, seasonal time, memory, ancestral memory, reciprocity, spiritual time and poetic time.

May 21 - June 18th, 2026
Thursdays, 6-8 pm EDT (5 Weeks)

How do we experience time within our bodies? The human social world seems to move to a fixed linear clock, yet we inhabit time in a diverse variety of entangled timelines and cycles. In what ways do our bodies influence the ways we move through time? And how might your photography practice be an extension of your body's way of interpreting time?

March 9th - April 6th, 2026
Mondays 12 - 1:30 pm ET (5 Weeks)

During this practice group, we will engage in Slow Looking to learn how to talk about what we see and listen for what emerges when others notice something we did not. Slow Looking invites us to stay present with friction, irritation, and uncertainty, which are vital parts of any creative process.

February 2nd - March 9th, 2026
Mondays 6:30-8:30 pm EST (6-Weeks)

In this practice group, we will take objects, whether a beloved heirloom or a favorite tchotchke, for walks, exploring the way light, texture, and place influence our connections not just to the objects, but more fundamentally to ourselves. Are the spirits of our objects inviting us in or asking us to move on? 

January 15 - February 19, 2026
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm EST (6 Weeks)

Drawing on disability and ecological studies, practice group participants will consider how deep rest can be a creative and transmutative force. Using self-portraiture, embodied photographic practices, and/or transforming currently existing work with intention and care, we will use our cameras to build relationships with the earthen bodies that surround us.

January 27th - March 3rd, 2026
Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm EST (6 Weeks)

In this practice group, participants will use the rock cycle and plate tectonics as inspiration for their practice. Melting and crystallizing, slow flow, erosion, sedimentation, and burial. Coming together, splitting apart, abrading. How do our internal processes and external experiences meet in our photographs?

February 3rd - March 3rd, 2026
Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm EST (5 weeks)

In this practice group, participants will explore how Earth can be perceived across different time scales and how we relate to the vast span of time that encompasses Earth's history. Do we - or should we - view life as linear or cyclical or something else entirely?

October 21st to November 25th, 2025
Weekly invitations are posted on Kinship Circle each Thursday.

Through this Kinship Circle invitation, we will examine our favourite works of artists who have spoken for water, what success in this field could look like and how it has been achieved. As an asynchronous practice gathering, Jon will lead with examples and prompts and facilitate the conversation throughout the time between new activities.

October 6 - November 24, 2025
Mondays 6:30 - 8:30 pm EST (8 Weeks)

During this practice group, we will consider these guiding questions: In what ways does the flow of water around us and within us make us feel alive? In what ways might particular objects offer portals to elemental states of mind and being? In the process of exploring the idea of aliveness, we will consider how photography can help us make sense of the unexpected life-forces contained within seemingly inanimate things.

October 9 - November 13
Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm EST (6 Weeks)

Together, we will explore water through self-portraiture and embodied photography practices, while asking questions intended to expand and shift our creative practice. We will explore water’s capacity to aid transformation and transition, to hold grief, and the relationship between our own bodies and the bodies of water we live with.

November 4– December 2, 2026
Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm EST for 5 weeks.

In this practice group, we will explore water as photographic subject matter both literally and metaphorically. Water is unique in that it exists in solid, liquid, and gaseous states. How does this fluidity manifest in natural and human-constructed environments, and how can it be applied to how we live our lives as artists?

July 1st - August 5th, 2025
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 (6 Weeks)

Over the course of this practice group, we will be building a metaphorical campfire and telling stories around it through photography. We will ask ourselves: what is the fuel for our fire? What lights the spark? Participants will find new ways to tell their own stories – reaching into their memories and capturing their perspectives in the moment. We’ll explore both single- and multiple-image approaches and play with incorporating text as interest warrants.

July 1 - August 19, 2025
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 pm (8 weeks)

This practice group will explore our relationship to elemental fire as experienced in the things that surround us. Fire, as it exists within bodies, carries ancient energy. How is it that some objects literally change the energy in a room? In what ways might particular objects offer portals to elemental states of mind and being?

July 3 - July 31, 2025
Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm (5 Weeks)

In this practice group, we will tend to our own embodied flames before turning our fiery vision outward to explore how this element encourages us to relate to others. We will explore care as a form of nurturing fire, attention as an illuminating force, and fire as an alchemical process of transformation.

April 20 - May 25th, 2025
Weekly invitations are posted on Kinship Circle.

For this online Kinship Circle invitation, we will focus on movement and exchange through the lens of self, setting, and time. In a series of prompts, participants will be invited to take a walk while noticing aspects of both their bodies and their environments. The prompts will come from the growing literature on Forest Bathing and Walking Art.

April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2026
Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 PM (wth short breaks for the holidays)

The Elemental Year draws creative inspiration from land-based cultures—where time moves in rhythm with the Earth and travels in circles and cycles. During this practice group, we will utilize the power of embodied seasonal rituals, contemplative practices, and deep reflection to explore our fundamental relationship to our elemental kin.