Making Kin Through Photography with Susan Patrice
Making Kin through Photography with Susan Patrice
January 24th - February 28th. Meets every Wednesday from 12 pm-1:30 pm EST via Zoom for 6-weeks.
Many of us yearn to deepen our intimacy and connection with the natural world, contemplative photography offers us a path. By reimagining photography as a relational medium, we can explore the subtle and often profound exchanges happening all the time between our body and the earth’s body. When practiced well, photography becomes a powerful tool for inspiring curiosity, humility and wonder. Here, photography blossoms as a language of gesture and reciprocity, opening the doorway to new ways of seeing, knowing, and caring.
This practice group encourages a slow approach to image making and will include weekly somatic practices and photography prompts that repeat and unfold over time. Together we will explore the role that photography can play as a tool for deep listening. If you are new to Kinship Circle, this practice group is a wonderful orientation to our community and to the practice group format. Photographers of all levels are invited, and camera phones are welcome.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation or $50. The average contribution for a six-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.
Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and contemplative artist. Her photography and public installations focus primarily on the southern landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place, belonging and ecological personhood. She lives in Marshall, NC, where she is the director of Makers Circle and a co-founder the Kinship Photography Collective.
Since 2016, her work has primarily explored the nature of visual perception and its impact on our feelings of connection and kinship. Through the use of handmade cameras built in response to the land, she engages in deep conversation with the places and persons of her native region. Her most recent project, The Land of My Body, combines her work as a documentary photographer and citizen artist as she explores her family’s multigenerational legacy of trauma and the healing power of photography to transform and reimagine the past.
Susan Patrice
Susan Patrice
