Bodies Connected by Water with Frances Bukovsky
Bodies Connected by Fire with Frances Bukovsky
October 9 - November 13th
Meets every Thursday from 6pm-8pm via Zoom for 6 weeks.
What water flows in our bodies? What is the current that runs through our days? How do we experience transformation and change, grief and joy, illness and wellbeing, in relationship to water?
The human body is over 70% water, making our connection to this element deeply intimate in a fully embodied way. How can we use our camera to tend to the waters that flow in our own bodies, as well as build relationships to the waters that surround us?
In this practice group, we will explore water through self portraiture and embodied photography practices, all the while asking questions intended to expand and shift our creative practice. We will explore water’s capacity for aiding transformation and transition, holding grief, and the relationship between our own bodies and the bodies of water we live with.
This practice group is for all levels of photographers with a focus on conceptual discussion rather than technical. We will meet once a week for 6 weeks to share our images, ideas, and questions as we engage in rich discussion about water 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.
