Pacing and Perseverance: Bodies of Work over the Long Haul with Anna G Norton and Eric William Carroll
Pacing and Perseverance: Bodies of Work over the Long Haul with Anna G Norton and Eric William Carroll
Monthly Practice Group. March 7th - October 3rd and meets on the first Thursday of each month from 6 - 8pm ET for 9-months via Zoom.
What defines a body of work? What holds it together? When is it complete? This practice group will be led by Anna Gage Norton and Eric William Carroll. The structure will be loose and open and serve primarily as a point for accountability that can be helpful when working on a project for a longer or indefinite time. We will meet monthly to share progress and help each other with direction. Additional resources, photographs, and feedback will be offered asynchronously through a private Kinship Circle channel. Topics considered include:
How to identify and prioritize project goals
Editing / categorizing / finding threads
When is it time to bring in outside help (editors, writers, etc.)?
Working on mini projects within or spin-off projects (magazine articles or chapters within a book)
When is it finished? Does it have to have an end? Has it been going on too long?
This practice group is limited to six participants.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system. This nine-month groups has a minimum one-time donation of $180 ($20 per month). The average contribution for a long-form practice group is $300. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $180 and need a scholarship , or prefer to make monthly payments, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.
Anna Gage Norton is a native of South Georgia and received her MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2005. Previously, Norton completed the Resident Program at Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media) and her BA in anthropology from Tulane University. Norton’s work deals with her relationship to place and centers around questions of historical and geological time, the animate and inanimate, permanence and transience. She exhibits in solo and group shows regionally and throughout the US, including a site-specific video installation, Living Space, at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. A selection of her video stills is published in Elements of Photography by Angela L Faris-Belt, and her video work is published in Rebekah Modrak’s Reframing Photography with companion website as well as Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Her most recent documentary photography project is featured in Aint-Bad Magazine, Murze Magazine and Oxford American Magazine’s “Eyes on the South,” and she is a 2021 Puffin Grant recipient. After a decade of teaching undergraduate and high school level photography in the mid-Atlantic region, Norton has returned to the South and now lives in Highlands, North Carolina where she continues her photography and videography for her personal and professional work.
Eric William Carroll’s work on photography, science, and nature explores the differences in how we experience, represent, and organize the world. Through his photographs, installations, and performances, Carroll creates visual and emotional connections that span enormous distances in space and time. At the heart of his practice is a genuine sense of curiosity that questions traditional binary relationships. Carroll’s work has been shown widely and has been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Pier 24 Photography, among others. Carroll has participated in residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Rayko Photo Center and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and was the winner of the 2012 Baum Award for Emerging Photographers. Born and raised in the Midwest, Carroll currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
