Join us Wednesday, May 11th and May 18th @ 7 pm EDT
Over the following two weeks, Eric William Carroll and Erik Mace will discuss their experience in photobook dreaming, making, and problem-solving. From creating one-off zines at home to collaborating with book designers, printers and producers we hope to dispel some of the fears of self-publishing and create a shared set of resources for anyone interested in making a photobook.
Recorded Wednesday, February 23rd @ 7 pm ET
Conceived as a multidimensional investigation into “the social lives of urban landscapes,” Mise-en-Scène: The Lives & Afterlives of Urban Landscapes (ORO Editions) is a powerful collaboration between photographer Mike Belleme and landscape-urbanist Chris Reed. Join us as we reimagine collaborative bookmaking.
Recorded: Friday, October 30th at 7 pm ET
Join the Six Feet Photography team, Frances Bukovsky, Mike Belleme, Lydia See, and Susan Patrice as they talk about the powerful role that photography has played in building a rich and diverse global community during the pandemic. Take a deeper dive into the Click! Photography Festival gallery as Mike, Lydia and Frances share curatorial insights about the gallery and the selected images.
Recorded: Thursday, October 22nd, 7 pm ET
“While exploring the often calamitous lands that exist between my ears I discovered a kind of serenity in taking stock of the smallest of things surrounding me.”
Thursday, October 15th at 7 pm ET
Emmet Gowin, will be one of the keynote speakers for the Click! Photography Festival. Emmet will give a brief overview of his and Edith’s lives, leading up to a concentration on his three most recent publications: The Nevada Test Site, 2019, Princeton University Press., Mariposas Nocturnas – Moths of Central and South America / A Study in Beauty and Diversity, 2017, Princeton University Press and Hidden Likeness, Emmet Gowin at the Morgan, 2015, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Thursday, September 24th, at 7 PM ET
Jackie Neale is a photographic artist using alternative processes and hybrid media to create storytelling projects. Most recently for her work, Crossing Over: Immigration Stories, Jackie used large-format cyanotype portraits accompanied by audio interviews that delved deeper into experiences of modern immigration and asylum-seeking. Join us for a lively conversation about personal and social processes, the power of using hybrid media to enhance storytelling, and the importance of community emersion.
Thursday, September 18th, at 7 pm ET
Attention, because it so often involves seeing something in its singularity, leads us to prize that one moment, thing, person. But the interconnectedness between humans and, in this case, photographers, is something to attend to just as deeply. Maybe now more than ever, we need to attend to each other and think about our clusters, our expanding constellation of influence and attention.
Thursday, September 10th, at 7 pm ET
What community, creativity, and visibility look like during this time has changed drastically. Over the past few months, physical communities and gatherings have shifted online and grown creative in forming new ways to connect and engage with each other. Julie Rae, Nicole, Keamber, and Natasha will be discussing the queer experience during quarantine and exploring how things have changed for them while self-isolated. Photo by Natasha Moustache
Thursday, September 3rd, at 7 pm ET
Eric Kunsman will join us to talk about the ins and outs of navigating a professional practice including the limitations of editing one’s own work, the vulnerable terrain of managing rejections, the critical role of community, and a few surprising secrets that might help us along our path.
Recorded: Thursday, August 27th, at 7 pm ET
Katherine Leonard brought us part II of the photography and alchemy series. Together we will take a look at personal bodies of work from two photographers, Monika Merva and Rita Kovtun who volunteered to share their work during a live portfolio review. Katherine took us behind the scenes of her review process. Together we explored how to deepen the intuitive skills needed to make determinations about the value of our images within the context of a larger body of work. Photo by Rita Kovtun.
Thursday, August 13th, at 7 pm ET
This week’s guest editor and curator, Katherine Leonard, will be bringing her honed intuitive skills to our Six Feet archive to select images that point us towards personal and cultural metamorphosis. The images and insights Katherine will be sharing are a jumping-off point for a month-long call-for-entry, which she will announce during the Zoom event. In September, photographers will submit their work to Katherine for consideration and review, and she will be joining us again for a live critique. Photo by Anne Berry
Recorded: Thursday, August 6th, at 7 pm ET
Join us as we continue to explore the language of photography. Judith Puckett-Rinella, photo director for Entrepreneur Magazine, formerly of T: New York Times Style Magazine and Vanity Fair invited photographers to distill their experience down to 5 images that speak to the raw truth of their personal journey. On Thursday, Judith shared her immense skills as a photo editor via live critique.
As photographers, we often think that we should only show editors work that feels appropriate to their publication, but often they are equally or more excited by seeing your personal vision even if it doesn’t work for their publication. This is very much the case for Judith.
Mike Belleme, was the co-host for this online review and asked Judith to collaborate with Six Feet because “out of the many photo editors I have met or worked with, I connected with her unwavering passion for photography and pursuit of realness above anyone else.”
Recorded: Thursday, July 30th, at 7 pm ET
Faced with an uncountable number of incoming images every day, how may we consider them? What meaning or value do photographs hold today—if any? These questions seem particularly poignant in this hermetic moment. Join photographer and educator Eric Baden and photobook editor Diana Stoll as they discuss a selection of images from the Six Feet Photography Project archive. Drawing from the medium's history, Eric and Diana seek (or fabricate!) avenues of approach—formal, conceptual, emotional, intuitive, historical—from the photograph to its purpose. This is a rare opportunity to see a live curation of photographs from two extraordinary curators. Photo by Rebecca Weston.
Recorded: Thursday, July 23rd, at 7 pm ET
This week Peter Eversoll will be talking about the power of community photography and how to use our skills (at every level) in service to social change. With all of photography's possible pitfalls, Peter Eversoll has successfully, and respectfully, used the medium of photography to support movements for social change by making photography an active tool in the life of the community and its members. As a photographer and community artist, Peter has brought underrepresented issues to the forefront and contributed in profound ways to the lives of the people he teaches and photographs.
Recorded: Thursday, July 9th, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET
In an open and unfolding conversation, Mike Belleme will be discussing his ongoing project, At Home With Death which takes an intimate and deeply relational look at family and loss through the life and death of Kate Oberlin. This week will explore what it means to practice photography as a powerful medium of relationship, where collaborative images embrace the deep emotions of both the photographer and subject.
Recorded: Tuesday, July 11th, 5:30 pm ET
Mike Belleme, the host of Between Us, will talk to photographer Annie Tritt, and hip hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo about their own journey of self-discovery, and how they have worked with kids to foster individuality and self-confidence.
Thursday, July 2nd, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET
Join photographer and multimedia artist Frances Bukovsky as she shares photographs and stories of her life lived within a vulnerable body. Through self portraiture, family documentary photography, and intense physical and mental trials, she has created bodies of work that reclaim narratives around health and ability. Frances will be speaking to us about the role of the body in image-making, the power of self-portraiture, and the ways in which vulnerability can open us to deeper levels of creativity and personal truth. Together we will explore how healing can be made accessible through photography, and the ways in which photography is accentuated and deepened by our own inner-work.
Tuesday, June 30th, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET
The Authority Collective is a group of more than 200 womxn, non-binary and gender expansive people of color working in the photography, film and VR/AR industries. Six Feet is delighted to host Authority Collective members, and “The Pieces We Are” curators Danielle Scruggs + Tara Pixley with featured photographer Hannah Yoon for a conversation about the Authority Collective, their curated gallery, and the crucial role photography is playing in our current moment. Photo by Sarahbeth Maney
Thursday, June 18th @ 7pm ET
Titus Brooks Heagins is a documentary photographer and educator adept at capturing the full emotional and cultural spectrum of diverse communities. Titus will be sharing images from Cuba, Haiti, Songs of the South, Durham Stories, and With Every Breath I Take, his portraiture series in the Cuban transgender community. Titus will be sharing the unique ways he approaches photographic collaboration to construct visual images that contradict negative images of representation.
Thursday June 11th @ 7 pm
As America was shutting down and Ed Kashi was returning from the field, he committed his craft to hyper-local work as the pandemic swept through New York and New Jersey. In the past three months, Ed has produced two bodies of work, a personal diary and a photo essay called Rising To The Call, which celebrates the work of frontline and volunteer workers in his state. Ed will be speaking to us about how he produces local stories that hold national significance. As we shift from stay-at-home orders to reengaging with the world, Ed Kashi offers us insights on staying safe, working compassionately with vulnerable populations, and creating images that matter.
Thursday, May 28th, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET
Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson have been creatively collaborating for nearly 50 years. Together they have gone beyond the personal to embrace the art of collaboration and community. Join us for this dynamic conversation as we explore the intersection of art, life, activism, and community.
Thursday, May 21st, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET
Bruce Jackson is an American writer, folklorist, documentary filmmaker, and photographer. His most recent book Places: Things Heard, Things Seen has been described as an alt-left history of American culture since the 50s. His matchless variousness bears witness to life with unflinching honesty and exceptional empathy. Please join us for this special conversation and a retrospective tour of his remarkable creative life.
Monday, May 18th, 7 pm ET
Photographer, Stacy Kranitz and writer, Andrew Malan Milward will discuss their own collaborative project on Cock Fighting in Louisiana, the rich history of collaborative projects between photographers and writers, and the often blurred line between fictional and non-fictional works.
Monday, May 11th, 7 pm ET
Street photographer, Michelle Groskopf and Landscape Architect, Chris Reed will talk through how they work in the public realm and help us better understand the urban landscape and how these two seemingly disparate practices have actually been in conversation for many years.
Recorded on May 5th, 2020
Photographer Kacey Jeffers will be joining us online from his home in Nevis to talk about the importance of stripping away the layers of what it means to be a photographer in order to get to what he calls a “presence-first” approach to photographing his immediate community.
Recorded Monday, May 4th, 7 pm ET
Mike Belleme, the host of Between Us, spoke with documentary photographer, Matt Eich about the relationship between music and photography and how they each speak to memory, story, and the American condition.
Recorded on April 21st, 2020
A conversation with documentary photographer Tom Rankin about building the capacity to “see beyond and around” to the revelation at hand.
Recorded on April 28th, 2020
The video recording of Ying Ang’s artist talk is now online. She joined us on April 28th from her home in Melbourne, Australia, to talk about the importance of “nurturing the instinctive impetus to photograph our own lives.