Featured Kinship Projects
To inspire our journey towards Kinship, we invite photographers, collaboratives, and practice group participants to share work. As our visual conversation expands through the Kinship call for engagement, we will continue to add inspiring and meaningful work that explores the intimate connections between nature, culture, and belonging. We invite you to check back often.
Between Bodies
Planet
The Pu‘u‘ō‘ō eruptio ranks as the longest and most voluminous known outpouring of lava from Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone in more than 500 years. Yvonne Dalschen documented this profoundly altered and otherwordly landscape.
All the elements of wind, water, and earth collided in a unique way, in this exact spot, to create beautiful, abstract, and seemingly unearthly patterns in the sand.
A photographic inquiry that collides the smallest known particles with the human desire for truth.
Solargrams capture and memorialize time as it passes. A reminder of the transience of life and the importance of our time on earth.
While considering the slow, almost invisible, changes happening around us, I began constructing landscapes to escape into within my apartment.
Place
Valery Lyman has been fascinated by the utility lines in Cambridge for years. What impresses her is the chaos. While everything else in the city is so quaint, controlled, manicured, and rich, right above the tree line are the ones that got away. For Valery, these are the only wild organisms left in Cambridge.
Through Chris Warner-Carey’s photographs the viewer is invited to imagine and contemplate what is just out of conscious sight in the shadows and mist, always with the understanding that there are forces and presences that resist logical analysis, and will remain unknowable by the human mind alone.
While living on a remote Montana ranch bordered by mountains and forest, shared with top apex predators including grizzly bears, Lauren Grabelle created wildly poetic images that focus on the harsh forces of nature and their relationship with humankind. Here, she gains a new understanding of birth, life, flight, death, and the transitions in between.
Since January 2022, Yvonne Dalschen and Morgain Bailey have been working together to create a weekly diptych that is inspired by documenting the landscape and the built environment.
Casey Visco’s photographs remind us to slow down and celebrate the very small and very common things in nature that we often overlook.
Deconstructing colonial optics of African Americans is the first step in building an "oppositional black aesthetic." It can be a place where the imaged self and the imagined self are given space to breathe within the American landscape. These are meant to be the antitheses of the shared historical memory.
After years of mismanagement and neglect of farmland that has been in Norton’s family for generations, they are restoring 250 acres along the Ichawaynochaway Creek in Baker County, Georgia in an effort to promote biodiversity for a sustainable ecosystem.
Persons
Dead plant matter that has fallen to the ground is ubiquitous in the forest, our backyards and streets. In Litterfall Casey Visco elevates this fallen matter through studio portraits that show us the hidden beauty that often goes unnoticed.
France Bukovsky became particularly interested in exploring where grief and joy color each other and the resulting complexity that arises.
Thompson harvests the power of the sun for his most recent self-portrait lumen series. This work comments on the nature of photography as a scientific process and the role it has played in reinforcing America’s racial caste system.
Through material investigations with alternative processes, Anna Rotty explores inhabiting all our human multitudes and emotional experiences…
Partners
Susan Patrice spent years learning to communicate with an Appalachian forest. What emerged was a set of practices that she used daily, much like gestural prayers enacted as rituals before photographing.
In this circle of relationships, each element has much to give. The sun gives the greatest gift of all, life itself. The plants offer endless gifts, each with a role in a complex ecological web, offering us food, medicine and countless other gifts both tangible and intangible.
Shauna Caldwell uses multimedia and photographic processes to honor land, familial connections, sacred relationships, and transformation.