Daytime Group: September 16th - October 21st
Wednesday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm ET for 6 weekly sessions

Evening Group: September 17th - October 22nd
Thursday 7 - 8:30 pm ET for 6 weekly sessions

Now more than ever, we need new ways to fall in love with the world. Photography offers us a path. Through the quality of our attention, we open ourselves to new ways of seeing and being in relationship with the wider world. For this six-week practice, we will reinterpret and repurpose relationship literature on romantic love to create prompts that invite us to court our subjects — a forest, a stranger, a stretch of light — with the same patience and curiosity we'd bring to any relationship of substance.

September 8th - October 13th, 2026
Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm EDT (6 Weeks) on Zoom

How might spending time in our archives reveal hidden narratives about time itself? Might abstractions offer views into deep time? Might our earliest images of family reveal long-buried memories? In this continued exploration of objects as portals to memory and meaning, Archiving Time With Time in the Archive is an invitation to hang out with and excavate meaning from past photographs.

September 14th, 2026 - October 19th, 2026
Mondays 6:30 -8 pm EDT for 6 weeks on Zoom

Over six weeks, we will develop a Slow Looking practice we carry into the field and into the editing and sequencing that follows, sitting with an image long enough to quiet the inner critic and make room for curiosity. Deep listening becomes part of how we look, both at each other's work and at the work of other artists.

October 19th, 2026 - November 23rd, 2026
Mondays 6 -7:30 pm EDT for 6 weeks on Zoom

A working copy, by definition, isn't done yet. This group is for photographers who want writing to become a consistent, ongoing part of their practice, people who suspect language might be able to do something their camera can't, and who want to find out what.

September 24th -October 29th, 2026
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm EDT (6 Weeks) on Zoom

How do we experience time within our bodies? We inhabit time in entangled timelines and cycles that are intimately shaped by the physicality of our bodies. Bodies in Time is an invitation to explore how photography can reveal, shift, and offer insight into the unique ways that our own bodies inhabit time, as well as how our experience of time is connected to other human and more-than-human bodies.

May 28 - July 2nd 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.

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

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 (Full)
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?

June 18 - July 16th (Full)
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 (Full)
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.

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?