Bodies Connected by Fire with Frances Bukovsky
Bodies Connected by Fire with Frances Bukovsky
July 3 - July 31, 2025
Meets every Thursday from 6pm-8pm via Zoom for 5 weeks.
Group size: 6
Where does fire live in our bodies? What fuels our days, burns in our bones, flickers in our spirits? How do we tend to the fires of other bodies, both human, and more than human? How can the camera become a way that we witness and illuminate, both ourselves, and the world around us?
In this practice group, we will explore and tend to our own embodied flames before turning our fiery vision outward to explore the ways that this element encourages us to relate to others. We will explore care as a form of nurturing fire, attention as an illuminating force, and fire as a process of alchemy and transformation. With a focus on self portraiture and embodied photographic processes, we will explore the relationships our bodies have with other bodies through the element of fire.
This practice group is for all levels of photographers; however, it will focus more on conceptual discussions than technical ones. We will meet once a week for five weeks to share our images, ideas, and questions and engage in rich discussions about fire and our bodies.
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.
Frances Bukovsky (they/them) is interested in complicated relationships at the intersection between bodies, places, and identities. 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. Their practice engages with how photography can be used to reject individualism and highlight interdependence and care, both for human and more-than-human bodies.
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.
