Photographing Our Complicated Bodies with Frances Bukovsky
Photographing Our Complicated Bodies with Frances Bukovsky
September 9th - October 14th, 2024
Meets every Monday from 6 pm - 8 pm EDT via Zoom for 6 weeks.
How can we use the camera to deepen our relationship with our own bodies through curiosity and attention? Can we use the camera to help us make space for the complexities of being alive? This practice group will explore self portraiture as a way to honor complicated bodies, sick bodies, aging bodies, healing bodies, grieving bodies, changing bodies, marginalized bodies, gender diverse bodies, more-than-human bodies.
Beginning with practicing self-directed deep attention and curiosity, this practice group will ultimately consider the ways that our relationship and understanding of our own bodies influence the ways that we hold relationships between bodies.
This practice group will have a maximum number of 6 participants.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation or $50. The average contribution for a six-week practice group is $125. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $50 please don't hesitate to request a scholarship.
Frances Bukovsky (they/them) explores the intricate relationships between bodies, places, and identities, particularly in the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. They apply interdisciplinary research to self portraiture, documentary photography, and camera-less photography to create projects that connect intimate personal experiences to larger systemic issues. They were born in rural upstate New York, and currently live in Marshall, North Carolina.
Bukovsky earned a BFA with honors in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Their work has recently been featured in institutions including UC Irvine, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, Circle Gallery at UGA, The United Nations HQ in New York, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image. Bukovsky’s debut monograph “Vessel” was published with Fifth Wheel Press in 2020. They have been a participant at Artist in Residency programs at the Peter Bullough Foundation in 2022 and the Goodall Visiting Fellows program at Wofford College in 2024. Bukovsky is a co-founder of Kinship Photography Collective as well as a member of Women Photograph.
