Slow Looking: A Practice of Observation with Liz Titone
Slow Looking: A Practice of Observation with Liz Titone
May 21 - June 25th 2026
Thursdays, 7 - 8:30 pm EDT for 5 weeks.
Photography demands that we be in relationship with forces beyond our control. Light shifts. Weather intervenes. The more-than-human world sets its own terms and timetables. As collaborators, we are in constant negotiation with what will and won't wait for us.
The practice of Slow Looking invites us to inhabit that negotiation differently, to cozy up to our work, to be with it unhurriedly, and to notice what emerges when we stay a little longer than feels comfortable. It helps us show up to what is already there and to regard what we encounter with attention and care. Patient, attentive looking can deepen our engagement not only with the images we've made, but with the ones we've yet to create.
How does sustained attention change what a photograph is allowed to mean?
What opens up when we resist the urge to locate an image in its moment of making and let it exist, instead, in the time of looking?
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.
In this practice group, we will use Slow Looking to talk about what we see, separate from intention or authorship. We will listen for what emerges when others notice something we did not, and when meaning is allowed to remain unsettled. Slow Looking disrupts the impulse to chase perfection, nudging creativity and curiosity forward. It supports quieter information, small details, and less obvious relationships, including our relationship to the time a photograph holds, and the time we bring to seeing it.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation of $50. The average contribution for a five-week practice group is $125. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $50 please don't hesitate to request a scholarship.
Liz Titone is a photographer and educator whose artistic practice is a continuous dialogue between observation and creation. Naturally curious and equally stubborn, she approaches her work with an insatiable thirst for answers, even when they lead to further questions. Her photography is rooted in patient inquiry and exploration, guided by the belief that observation is a superpower.
Trained in photography and book arts, Liz is drawn to paper and the tactile experience it offers, but it's the dance of light through her lens that truly captivates her. Liz’s work toggles between the mechanical precision of the camera and the hands-on engagement with materials, blending both to reflect the world around her.
Follow Liz on Intagram: @liztitonestudio
