Bodies in Time with Frances Bukovsky
Bodies in Time with Frances Bukovsky
May 21st - June 18th 2026
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm EDT for 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?
Drawing inspiration from disability studies and particularly the theory of “crip time,” this practice group will invite photographic exploration of how we perceive time, how receiving care or caregiving affects the quantity and quality of time that we have, and how we relate to time through the physicality of our bodies. Using self-portraiture and embodied photographic practices, we will use our cameras to explore, build, and shift our relationship to time.
How might your photography practice be an extension of your body's way of interpreting time?
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation of $60. The actual cost for a 5-6 week practice group is $125. Donations below $125 are being subsidized by Kinship. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum donation of $60 please request a scholarship.
Frances Bukovsky (they/them) is interested in the complicated relationships between bodies, places, and identities. They use their photography practice to reject individualism and highlight interdependence and care, for both human and more-than-human bodies. Their work is informed by disability, queer, and ecological studies to create projects that reach into the intimate and mundane to connect the personal to the systemic.
Bukovsky earned a BFA with honors in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Their work has recently been featured in institutions including UC Irvine, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, Circle Gallery at UGA, The United Nations HQ in New York, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image. Bukovsky’s debut monograph “Vessel” was published with Fifth Wheel Press in 2020. They have been a participant at Artist in Residency programs at the Peter Bullough Foundation in 2022 and the Goodall Visiting Fellows program at Wofford College in 2024. Bukovsky is a co-founder of Kinship Photography Collective as well as a member of Women Photograph.
