Wednesday, May 22nd, 8 pm EDT

This in-person gallery exhibition features photographs by 105 photographers from ten countries who took up the challenge to share personal photographs made during this extraordinary time. This exhibition is a phenomenal outpouring of emotional and creative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and stands as a collective and commemorative visual narrative that touches both the pain and possibilities of hope, community, resilience, and strength.

Photo by: Hillary Johnson IG: @hillaryhelios

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Wednesday, May 12th, 7 pm EDT

Join Eric Kunsman this week as he walks us through social media best practices for deepening engagement and attracting followers. Eric is a prolifically creative photographer and citizen-artist who has successfully used social media to leverage project and exhibition opportunities. Eric will share the basics of social media engagement and give us a sneak peek into the innovative ways he uses social and new media to enhance his photography projects.

If your work has recently been curated into an exhibition, this talk will help you make the most of that opportunity.

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Wednesday, April 21st, 7 pm ET

This practice group circle back is focused on making photo books. Together, these six photographers explored the unique possibilities of photo books, from ideation, to sequencing, to layout/design, to publication (whether hand-making an artist book, self-publishing through an online printer, or pitching to an editor). During this circle-back conversation, we will discuss the ins and outs of the book-making process, and see the mock books made by each photographer.

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Wednesday, April 7th, 7 pm ET

If you make an image about someone is it a portrait even if they are not present in the frame? Join us this week as we explore five photographers’ different interpretations of this idea. Join Mike Belleme, Nicole Marie, Eliza Bell, Eric B. Hanson, and Lisa Howell for inspiration that takes you beyond the eyes and face into other ways of seeing and distilling the essence of an individual through an image or set of images.

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Wednesday, March 31st, 7 pm ET

Are you interested in exploring a new genre or style? Are you wanting to challenge yourself and work outside of your comfort zone? In this practice group circle back we will talk about the impetus behind the group and why experimentation and risk-taking are so important. Join this remarkable group of creators as they share images and experiences of pushing the edges of their own craft and creative practice. Photo by Alli Harper

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Wednesday, March 24th, 7 pm ET

What are the implications and benefits of crossing the boundary to our past? This practice group circle-back will take a look at the various sides of this emotion and how it can serve as an entry point for making new work, looking at questions about ourselves, our histories, and offering new perspectives in reflection. By diving deep into nostalgia we can explore the breadth of this vulnerable topic, examining everything from war and personal trauma to quiet comforts and reflections on family and home.

Photograph by Anna Rotty

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Wednesday, March 17th, 7 pm ET

This week, as we continue to explore the theme of boundaries, we will be questioning the role of consent in our photographic practice. This is an exploratory community conversation designed to expand our ideas around the use and practice of consent and our role in helping build a consent culture.

Photograph by Ellie Jenkins

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Wednesday, March 10th, 7 PM EST

During this strange year, boundaries that demarcated public and private were completely blurred. Many resourceful photographers navigated this liminal space by photographing what was most close at hand, creating immediate and intimate images within their own homes.

Now, after a year of being confined within our homes, how do we continue to photograph inside of them? What new images, perspectives, and ideas can we create through careful examination of each room? These questions are the premise of the Anatomy of a Home practice group. During this circle-back, group members will be sharing their images and experiences of creating work within the boundary of a room and will be generously sharing how they approached that boundary within their own work.

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 7 PM EST

Members of the “The Poetics of Documentary Landscape” practice group will share new or ongoing projects investigating the landscape through a poetic documentary lens. This talk will focus on the experiences of each photographer’s unique relationship to the land.

Together we will question and explore photography as a medium to imbue poetic significance into our documentary work.

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Wednesday, February 17th, 7 PM EST

Join us for the first Practice Group Circle-Back to the wider Six Feet Photography community. Members of the “Photo-biography to Self-portraiture” Practice Group will discuss their individual work and then be in dialogue with attendees about their relationship to self-portraiture before and during the pandemic, how the performativity of gender influences their work, and how or if this five-week practice group has influenced their practice.

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Wednesday, February 10th, 7 PM EST

For many of us, family photography is more than the creation of fond memories, it is an important way to investigate intimate, personal, and even cultural truths.

This week we are taking our Picturing Others discussion of the past two weeks, and bringing it closer to home.

Join us for a panel discussion with Stella Kalinina, Renee Elena Romero, and Neil Kramer as we learn more about how they work within their families to create images. Together we will dive into each photographer’s personal process, and explore the approaches they take to balance privacy and exposure.

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Wednesday, February 3rd, 7 PM EST

What is the photographer’s responsibility to the communities they photograph when working with curators and photo editors? Join us this week for part II of Picturing Others where we will be joined by Roger May and Appalachian photographers Raymond Thompson Jr., Rebecca Kiger, Rich-Joseph Facun, and Rob Amberg. We will also be pondering the camera as an empathic tool and/or weapon for interrogating injustice.

If you missed lasts week's talk you can watch a highlights reel introducing each photographer or the full-length conversation here.

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Wednesday, January 27th, 7 PM EST

What is the photographer's responsibility to the communities where they photograph? Tom Rankin, Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke will be hosting an in-depth conversation with Appalachian photographers Raymond Thompson Jr., Rebecca Kiger, Rob Amberg, and Rich-Joseph Facun. Together we will be questioning the role of insiders and outsiders when picturing others and how that impacts the boundary between what is shared and what is withheld.

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Wednesday, January 20th, 7 pm ET

Drawing from the work of Sally Atkins, the Six Feet Community will be redesigning our Wednesday night photography forums and salons. Utilizing the metaphor of rhizomatic relationships which are multiple, intertwining, and interpenetrating, we will be creating thematic conversations that draw on the wisdom of the photographic community at large. Join us as we craft and explore questions and topics that really matter to you in your photographic practice and draw on community wisdom and open inquiry to expand those conversations.

Help us shape the questions and the content of our future Six Feet Forums.

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Wednesday, January 13th, 7 pm EST

Florida based documentary photographer, Sofia Valente joins Mike Belleme for a conversation focusing on her two main long term projects both centered in the same region of South Florida around Lake Okeechobee.

This will be the first in a series of talks centered around our theme Boundaries. The talk will be followed by a dynamic community conversation designed to help us deepen and expand our thematic focus.

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Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 @ 7 pm ET

As a community of practice, we are interested in pushing the boundaries of collaborative and community art. Join us as we launch Boundaries, our 16-week call-for-engagement designed to inspire and support rich dialogue and encourage creative exchange. In support of our thematic call for engagement, our amazing community of photographers and educators will be launching a whole new series of practice groups. Join us to get detailed information about each practice group.

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Thursday, December 17th, 7 pm ET and/or Friday, December 18th, 12 pm ET

Join us this week for the final round as we work together to craft our call for engagement theme, redesign our image submission process, and form working groups for new initiatives.

With hopes of including more of our global partners, we have added a daytime planning session on Friday at noon ET. Please feel free to sign up for both or either.

We hope you will join us as we dream into ever more exciting ways to utilize the power of photography and community.

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Thursday, December 10th, 7 pm ET and/or Friday, December 11th, 12 pm ET

Join us this week for round III as we work together to: craft our call for engagement theme, redesign our image submission process, and form working groups for new initiatives.

If you can’t join us this week, please take this short survey to vote on your favorite word combos for our thematic focus. Deadline for the survey: Thursday at 7 pm ET.

https://forms.gle/ipUq5nJh9N4HMwZ58

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Thursday, December 3rd, 7 pm ET and/or Friday, December 4th, 12 pm ET

The Six Feet team is grateful for the collective wisdom of this community and the creativity each of you brings to this collaborative project. On Thursday, November 19th we held an online community gathering. Community members worldwide shared inspiring ideas for taking our community process to the next level. Join us this week for round II as we work together to integrate our ideas into thematic projects, practice groups, exhibitions, publications, etc.

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Thursday, November 19th at 7 pm ET

Join us for a Six Feet community conversation and help us shape the future of the Six Feet project. As our lives get more complicated, (many of us have gone back to work, invested our creative energy in support of issues of great importance, or just feel exhausted by all things COVID) the Six Feet team is curious about the ways in which this project can continue to serve our community. We really need your creative input, opinions, and ideas as we move forward.

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