Bodies in Time Bodies in Time: Expanding the Self through Self-Portraiture with Frances Bukovsky
Bodies in Time: Expanding the Self through Self-Portraiture with Frances Bukovsky
October 1st, 2026 - November 5th, 2026
Thursdays 5:30 - 7:30 pm EDT
6 weekly sessions on Zoom
What if self-portraiture could be a process that, rather than being centered on the self, expanded the relational web the self exists in? What if a self-portraiture practice could bring us deeper into the entangled timelines and cycles we all live in?
Bodies in Time: Expanding the Self through Self-Portraiture, is an invitation to explore how self-portraiture as a practice can reveal, shift, and offer insight into the unique ways that our own bodies inhabit identities, relationships, and places, within the context of time.
For this six-week practice group, we will build a self-portraiture practice that encourages expansion and connection between the self and the world we live in. Along the way we will build a visual language of embodiment through self-portraiture, weave connections between body, identity, place, relationships, and time, and consider what insights self-portraiture might hold for us about how we inhabit time.
We will consider if the self needs to be physically present in the frame in order to make a self-portrait, how our intention in photographing can shift our relationship to self, what we might learn about the world by increasing our attention towards how we move through it, and what a self-portraiture practice could look like for each of us.
Each week we will gather for rich discussions accompanied by prompts, questions, and inspiration designed as starting points for building your own relational self-portraiture practice.
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 is a photographer located in Marshall, North Carolina. They are interested in the ways we define, value, and relate to both human and more-than-human bodies. Frances focuses on the process of photography as a way to explore embodiment and relationship, often beginning with their own body through self-portraiture. They draw from ecology, queer, and disability studies to weave intimate experiences together within broader contexts to highlight the interdependent relationships between all beings.
