we are glad you are here
We are a volunteer run collaborative project, supporting and engaging photographers around the globe. This is a community and archives in the making, and without you it can’t happen.
The Six Feet photography project acknowledges the cultural inequities that exists within many art institutions and community projects. Six Feet encourages participation from artists who identify as culturally, geographically, educationally, marginalized, including (but not limited to) Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer, Trans, Non-binary, Gay, Lesbian, Two-Spirit, people with disabilities, women, those without formal art education, and people who identify as any intersectionality or identity not mentioned here.
Below are some next steps to help you get connected and engaged.
Read our about page and get to know us.
Join online events such as webinars, artist talks, and info sessions.
Subscribe to our newsletter.
Use the hashtag #lifeatsixfeet when posting images to Instagram. To see everyones posted photographs follow #lifeatsixfeet. To share photographs in a public hashtag feed, your Instagram account must be public. Those with a private account should submit photographs through our website submission form.
Share your photographs, ideas, and skills with us.
Help us grow our community by introducing us to other photographers, educators, and curators.
Check the website often, it is growing by the minute, thanks to everyone!
Embrace your vulnerability. Take risks. Let go of perfection. Learn a new skill. Ask for support. Share work that is still in process.
upcoming events
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.
April 20th @ 7 pm ET via Zoom
Join us for a robust conversation with Michelle Dunn Marsh founder of Minor Matters books about her newly released book Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography and her indispensable primer Reading Photographs, a simple and profound methodology for looking at and engaging with images. Additionally, we will be exploring Minor Matters’ unique and collaborative book publishing practices.
Wednesday, April 13, 7pm EDT via Zoom
Six Feet is launching a new call-for-engagement in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature that revolves around the theme of Kinship. Join us for our first community-wide planning meeting. We are eager to hear your thoughts and ideas as we shape this call and the upcoming practice groups.
April 6th @ 7 pm ET via Zoom
Join us for a Photobook Practice Groups Info Session, meet the facilitators and ask questions. Info sessions are designed to help you choose the group that best fits your creative practice. Info session attendees will be given early access passes to practice group registration.
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 the community on a photobook field trip! Aperture recently launched its monthly PhotoBook Club, and its inaugural session is this Wednesday, Six Feet will be hosting an intimate discussion post field trip on our usual platform.
Join us Wednesday, March 9th @ 7 pm ET
Please join us for this inspiring boundary-breaking conversation and learn more about how Yoffy transforms bodies of photographic work into objects of art through their innovative and collaborative approach to photobook publishing.
Join us Wednesday, March 9th @ 7 pm ET
This week will be all about inspiration - we’ll be discussing the books that cover our desks and shelves, from published to self-published, editioned to one-of-a-kind. Content, design, production, marketing — we’ll talk through as a group what makes our favorites stick with us.
Join us Wednesday, March 16th @ 7 pm ET
Join us this week as we take on re-sequencing two beloved photobooks, Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood and Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin's This Equals That. As a group, we’ll discuss why breaking boundaries can be so rewarding in creating edits and sequencing our work.