Wednesday, May 24th, 7pm EDT via Zoom
Over the last two years, through the generosity of hundreds of photographers from around the globe, Six Feet has grown into a powerful, inspiring, and supportive photography community. In celebration of what we created together, we will be launching the Kinship Photography Collective (Kinship), a global community of photographers exploring the intimate connections between nature, culture, and belonging. But before we do, we want to celebrate our Six Feet community.
Join us Wednesday, May 18th @ 7 pm EDT
Join us for part-two of our discussion about photobook dreaming, making, and problem-solving. This week’s focus is on design. Erik Mace will present tips, best practices, and starting points in graphic and book design, discussing a set of basics that everyone can use for their next book project.
Join Aperture Wednesday, March 30th @ 6 pm ET for Photobook Club
Join Six Feet @ 7 pm ET via Zoom for a post field trip discussion.
This week we invite on our second field trip to Aperture’s PhotoBook Club Wednesday @ 6pm EDT. where Aperture will be featuring Hello Future by Farah Al Qasimi (Capricious, 2021) Then join us for a post field trip zoom conversation facilitated by Eric William Carroll at 7 pm EDT.
I’m Still Here explores the photographic journey of Beate Sass during the COVID-19 pandemic. When stay-at-home orders were issued in March of 2020, Beate struggled to cope with the acute sense of isolation from the world beyond her doors. Beate’s photographs are a celebration of beauty and magic, where the most ordinary of objects become extraordinary.
This work is the result of an ongoing practice of quiet observation of the ephemeral beauty of changing light conditions on the snow-covered hills of the northeast. The way the land and sky mirror and dissolve into one another is a constant source of wonder.
How do we make images in our homes after we've exhausted our homes as subject for almost a year during social isolation? This practice group, with Frances Bukovsky, Anna Rotty, Beate Sass, Rita Kovtun, and Sara Swaty was an in-depth exploration of making images in the home. Each week was focused on an individual room and posed questions served as prompts for image making and reflection.
Nostalgia encompasses everything from recalling fond memories of comfort to dangerous and consequential ideologies preventing us from moving forward as a culture. There is a heightened sense of nostalgia in this moment, where we are forced to slow down and both long for the before times, but also imagine futures better than the reality of our own histories.
In March 2020, when everything shut down, many of us sheltered in place with our children. Time has passed, and we are almost a year into the pandemic. I wanted to revisit the question of are the kids alright. How are our nation's kids reacting, coping, and living during this time of extreme circumstances? How are they handling anxieties surrounding political unrest, schooling, and the ongoing pandemic? The images selected are a second visual check-in to see if “The Kids Are Alright”.
During October and November of 2020, an international group of photographers from diverse backgrounds came together as a peer group to work for six weeks on documentary landscape practice and theory. This group was hosted by sixfeetphotography.com. The following images have been curated by the group’s moderators, Morgain Bailey and Stella Kalinina, from submissions made by the group’s members.
Let Shadows Fall Behind Us is a collection of work by Six Feet Photography Project's Parenthood Practice Group. Established in April 2020, this group has been meeting fortnightly to share with each other the creative ways they have responded to the pandemic as both photographers and parents or caregivers. The group's members span multiple countries and time zones, and have been nourished by their many commonalities of experience.
“Our duty is to experiment” Alexander Rodchenko
Abstraction is often criticized as an intellectual game; however, there is emotion and beauty in these images that show a perspective of the world only possible through photography. By translating limited spaces and changed routines into new explorations, abstract photography works as a remedy for difficult times…
This selection of images was curated by members of our collaborative team - Susan Patrice, Mike Belleme, Frances Bukovsky, and lydia see, and it represents a very small sampling of Six Feet content gathered over the last six months, from our galleries, special features, and images posted to Instagram using our hashtag, #lifeatsixfeet.
Over several weeks, 8 women met each week to consider the theme of nostalgia in their work. Nostalgia is something that encompasses multitudes, both warm and familiar, counterproductive and dangerous. They focused on this difficult to define, elusive and powerful emotion. Through conversations around their personal experiences as women, migrants, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, grandmothers, and as people reflecting on their pasts, all caught between places and homes, they realized early on that each of them felt nostalgia very differently, but as they shared more and more they found many threads and connections through their work.
As a prelude to our upcoming panel discussion about queer experience during quarantine, I asked Julie Rae Powers, Nicole Norman, Keamber Pearson, and Natasha Moustache to share images of their work to be shown in a gallery.
This guest curated gallery was created by Katherine Leonard for her online Zoom talk The Alchemists of 20/20: Photography and Transformation. Here, Katherine Leonard's selected images point us towards personal and cultural metamorphosis.
“Now, in the midst of 2020, it feels like listening to that same song on repeat—but in complete isolation. You already mentally connected each word of that song to every single object around you. There are no more connections to make. The associative array has exhausted itself.”