Attending online live events are a powerful way to feel connected to our emerging community while fostering new ideas and inspiration for you own practice. Click here to view previously recorded artist talks and webinars.
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.
Join us Wednesday, March 2nd @ 7 pm ET
Join Eric William Carroll as he walks through two of his photo book projects, Blue Line of Woods (2012) and A Light Year of Lead (2021). With work ranging from ephemeral large-scale photograms to dead-pan documentary & archival appropriation, Eric will explore how the book format served each project in its own way and attempt to answer how the same artist can sing in such radically different voices.
Wednesday, February 16th @ 7 pm ET for a Practice Group Circle Back
In this practice group circle back, we'll explore experimental ways to create and present photography-based artwork, particularly in relation to conceptual projects.
Join us Wednesday, February 9th @ 7 pm ET for a community conversation.
Books are magic. They are also a powerful way to make our photographic work tangible in the world. And, importantly, an accessible and affordable way for us to support each other. Join Six Feet for an open-ended conversation about the use of photographs in books. Photo by Mike Belleme, from his recent book Mise-en-Scene.
Join us for Part II: Wednesday, February 2nd @ 7 pm ET for a Practice Group Circle Back
Explore how small changes in how you sequence your work can impact your narratives and their emotional tension. This practice group circle back will be considering the influence of sequencing choices, the pauses between images, and the associations that develop through those choices. Photo by Joon Powell
Join us Wednesday, January 19th @ 7 pm ET for a Practice Group Circle Back
In this practice group circle back, we will be exploring the art of sparking new meanings by pairing land-inspired photographs. Join us for examples of various ways that images work together to create meaning.
Wednesday, January 12th @ 7 pm ET
Six Feet is looking forward to an inspirational and exciting 2022 with a new community theme, exciting practice groups, and new ideas for how we can support one another. Please join us for an open community session & design salon. Contribute your ideas and share your needs so that we can create a thriving and supportive community in 2022.
November 10th, 7 pm ET
Join for a Practice Group 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.
October 1 - November 27, 2021
Pieces of Light is a photography exhibition curated from the diverse perspectives of forty-seven photographers across the southeastern region of the US. During the Covid-19 pandemic. These photographers used their cameras as a tool for connecting intimately with their daily lives, the natural world, and their immediate communities.
June 2nd, 7 pm EDT
Join us for the Community Exhibition Practice Group Circle-back to glean wisdom and inspiration for launching a community exhibition. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the team curated and installed a 120 image exhibition from start to finish.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
