Collaborations

Transforming our relationships with each other and the more-than-human world requires new ways of seeing and responding. At Kinship, through our calls for engagement, we introduce big themes–that inspire big questions–and big conversations. Together we support and uplift each other knowing that each artists images will be woven into collective and collaborative projects and exhibitions that reveal multiple and varied perspectives. Together, we use the phenomenal power of photography to explore new ways of seeing and being together.

We invite you to explore the collaborative projects below and check back often, as new collaborations unfold. Or even better, join us and become a Kinship Collective collaborator.

If you are interested in exhibiting one of the collaborative project featured below, please reach out to us.

Between Bodies

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Re-Imagining Loss & Grief

Between January and November 2024, seven Kinship community members gathered thirteen times to ‘reimagine’ loss and grief. Whether intentional or in our subconscious, we influenced one another in an unspoken call and response: One person’s vulnerability inviting others to let go; another person’s way of seeing inspiring new perspectives. Honestly and bravely we kept messing around in our collective ‘sandbox,’ letting the grit and grime that is loss and grief transform within, between and among us.

Between Bodies

We’ve come together over the past year to explore embodied photographic practices that are grounded in the senses, shared conversations between bodies, noticed and deepened the relationships that connect all bodies. Along the way, we’ve been bringing our own bodies to photography, sharing personal and collective grief through image making, documenting natural disasters as we live through them, expressing the ways our bodies are intimately entwined with each other’s and the earth body we live in.

In Praise of the Earth: An Earth Month Celebration

From April to May 2024, Kinship community members responded to three prompts adapted from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown’s book Coming Back to Life and recently featured on We Are The Great Turning podcast. These are our responses.

A Complex Definition of a Body

Where do our bodies end and other bodies begin? How does our understanding of the edges of our being influence us? For six weeks, practice group participants of A Complex Definition of a Body met and worked in a diverse range of photographic techniques to play with the complexity of defining what a body is.

Elementals

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Mid-Stream Journeys

Halfway through our elemental season of Water, the Kinship community participated in an invitation to share what they have been exploring in their own practice while contemplating this element. During this gathering, members shared images and brief stories that illuminated themes of beauty, ecology, advocacy, sensation, metaphor, and transformation. This gallery shares some of the images presented as a part of this gathering.

Water Stories

Members of the Kinship community responded to a call to share their Water Stories as a way to begin our collective exploration of the element of Water. Images and stories were presented during a community gathering on October 1st and a rich discussion about the relationships that we all have with water followed. This gallery brings together some of the images from that gathering.

Fire Celebration

Fire remains wild, increasingly so today, but its domestication changed the course of human evolution. If fire speaks, what is it saying to us, especially in an era of climate breakdown and mass extinction? How can photography help us keep and tend to our elemental relations with this element with care? In what ways do the many manifestations of fire bring us in closer relationship with our earthly kin? And how might our photography practices inspire us to sustain our own internal fires as darkness descends? The Kinship community spent a season pondering these questions and our relationship with Fire through the practice of photography. At the end of the season, we came together in celebration and sharing of what we have learned through this element.