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Kinship Collective
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Kinship Collective is a global community of practice. Together, we ask big questions and create rich conversations that explore the kindred connections between nature, culture, and belonging.

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This week, join us for a thoughtful artist talk with John Healey. Triple Point: It's Only Water
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Triple Point: It’s Only Water with John Healey — kinship
Wednesday, October 8th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom At precisely 0.01 °C and 611.73 mb, water can simultaneously exist in three states. It is under these exact conditions that we get a glimpse of the intric...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Join us this Wednesday for a rich and engaging talk with artist Kimberly Anderson!

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The Fires and Alchemy of Memory with Kimberly Anderson — kinship
Wednesday, July 30th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom How can we carry the fires of memory forward using photography? What can we illuminate in our practices? Kimberly Anderson weaves together alternative proce...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Join us this week with Raymond Thompson Jr. kinship.photography/gatherings-l...
'It's hard to stop rebels that time travel' with Raymond Thompson Jr. — kinship
Wednesday, July 23rd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom Can we bend time back on itself through image, text, and narrative? Photographer Raymond Thompson Jr has done just that in his new book ‘It’s hard to stop r...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This week, join us for These Volatile Bodies with Daniel Hojnacki: kinship.photography/gatherings-l...
These Volatile Bodies with Daniel Hojnacki — kinship
July 16th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom The photographic practice is a product of all things elemental (water, light, time), inviting us to be in direct response to and in accordance with the natural chan...
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July 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Join us this week for a conversation with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social about inspiration, community, and artistic practice: kinship.photography/gatherings-l...
Various Small Fires: Exploring Photography through Multimedia with nat raum — kinship
July 9th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom As we continue our explorations of fire together this week, we will be considering the ways that we can feed the fires of our creative practice. What sustains our cr...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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A Kinship member recommended this essay by Tyson Yunkaporta as we begin our elemental Fire season:

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Fire in the Belly – Tyson Yunkaporta
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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With the turn of the seasons, we are entering our second elemental cycle: Fire.

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Elementals: Fire — kinship
June 18th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom Join us as we explore the second element in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemental life. Paul Wanta, Sarah Barker, and Frances Bukovsky will be sharing how...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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An Elemental Year: Photography & Ritual — A (Spring/Air) Practice Group Circle Back — kinship
June 4th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom During this exploratory practice group, participants utilized the power of embodied rituals, contemplative practices, deep reflection, and playful intuition to explo...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Tonight's gathering with Chelsea Silbereis! We hope you can join us.

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Threads of A Family with Chelsea Silbereis — kinship
Wednesday, May 28th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom For Chelsea Silbereis, her art and parenting practices are intrinsically intertwined, which centers her values. Please join us for a dynamic conversation with ...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We are looking forward to tonight's gathering, and hope that you can join us!

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Sky Kin: Bird Appreciation and Skill Share — kinship
Wednesday, May 14th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom This week in our ongoing exploration of air, we will be looking to those kin who have an intimate understanding of this element (beyond human understanding), b...
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May 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Inspired by our Kinship conversation last week with @jakeeshelman.bsky.social , the Kinship community was invited to go on an olfactory adventure. Here we were asked to consider scent as both a creative medium and an ecological language.

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Be a Bee: A Kinship Show & Share — kinship
Wednesday, May 7th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom As we continue to explore the element of air as the medium that carries and stimulates a multitude of sensations, emotions, and images, we invited our Kinship...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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How can objects offer portals to memory and meaning? How can photography help us make sense of the energy embodied in our stuff?

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Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning with Lyn Swett Miller — kinship
April 15 - May 20, 2025 Meets every Tuesday from 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm via Zoom for 6 weeks. During this six-week practice group, we will explore our relationship to elemental air as experienced in th...
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April 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Practice groups are back! Join us 4/9 at 7pm EDT for an info session with this season's facillitators.

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Elementals - Air: Spring Practice Groups Info Session — kinship
Wednesday, April 9th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom There is no better way to explore our elemental and essential relationships to photography than in a practice group. Join us this Wednesday for the opportun...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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We hope you will join us today!

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Elementals: AIR — kinship
Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom Join kinship members Chris Warner-Carey and Lyn Swett Miller for this introduction to the first element, Air, in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemen...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We are excited to be sharing our new call! Come collaborate with us as we shape Elementals together over the upcoming year: kinship.photography/gatherings-l...
Elementals: A Kinship Call-for-Engagement — kinship
Wednesday, March 26th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom Join us this Wednesday for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of our newest call for engagement Elementals . In this latest “Call,” Kinship invites photographers ...
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March 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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We hope you will join us for this week’s gathering with Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta: kinship.photography/gatherings-l...
Transience & Presence with Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta — kinship
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 5th, 7 pm EST Join Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta for a Between Bodies inspired conversation about transience and presence. In Julie Williams Dixon’s colle...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This week at Kinship, join us for a fantastic talk with Rosie and Ann Villano:

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Rosie & Ann Villano: Between Bodies, Between Places — kinship
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 19th, 7 pm ET Join Rosie Villano and their mother Ann as they reflect on their ongoing inter-generational creative conversation about perception, people and the ...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This week on Kinship, we are revisiting questions that feel important now more than ever.

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When Photography Becomes Love: A Community Show & Share Revisited — kinship
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 5th, 7 pm ET In what ways do your photographs help you pay your love forward into the world? Is creative attention a form of love? Can a photograph be a love let...
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February 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Today on the Kinship website we are featuring Gravida, a powerful portfolio from Eliza Bell Schweizbach.

#photography #photocommunity

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Gravida - Eliza Bell Schweizbach — kinship
Pregnancy is a direct embodiment of the question — where does one body end and another begin? In this portfolio, Eliza Bell embarks on a deep exploration of the known and unknown alongside the pregnan...
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February 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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This week on the Kinship website, we have Ann Villano's portfolio titled "Common Ground."

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Common Ground - Ann Villano — kinship
Several years ago, Ann Villano became obsessed with taking photos of decaying edifices: barns, old houses, falling stone walls. When she considered images for "Between Bodies," she focused i...
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February 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This event is today! 7pm ET, we hope you can join us.
February 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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In preparation for our weekly gathering this week with Erik Mace, you can view his recently featured photo essay in Southern Cultures. Then, be sure to join us on 2/5 at 7pm ET as Erik takes us through the work!

#Photography #ArtistTalk

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Fabian and Rose
I lied. My grandmother asked if I wanted to take their portrait, and I said yes. It’s not that I didn’t like my grandparents; it’s that I don’t take portraits of strangers. Standing at the front door…
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February 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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We are looking forward to this talk with Erik Mace about his new photo essay, Fabian and Rose, which was recently published by Southern Cultures Magazine.

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Fabian and Rose: A Photo Essay on the Legacy of Lies with Erik Mace — kinship
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 5th, 7 pm ET Join Erik Mace as he discusses his recently published photo essay,  Fabian and Rose . Begun in 2019, his essay in Southern Cultures features ...
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February 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This week on the Kinship website, explore Barron Northrup's portfolio, Buddy you're dying and I hate that for you: kinship.photography/featured-pho...
Buddy you’re dying and I hate that for you - Barron Northrup — kinship
In this ongoing series, Barron explores the relationship between the human body and the landscape he walks everyday by listening to and responding to the landscape rather than dominating it. By moldin...
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January 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM