Houston, TX | Mentor: Kelli Connell
Avery Norman is a Texas born photographer currently based in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2022 with a BFA in Photography, followed by the International Center of Photography’s year long creative practices program in 2023. Her images focus on youth, girlhood, and American identity.
Avery’s work has been published by The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, I-D Magazine, New York Magazine, Vogue Korea, Highsnobiety Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Fader, Paper Magazine, Document Journal, Office Magazine, and Kaleidoscope Magazine. In addition, her work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography and the PhotoVogue Festival in Milan.
Project Statement
This body of work explores the aesthetics and emotional architecture of an imagined girlhood– one shaped as much by cultural iconography and internet nostalgia as by personal memory. These images function as self-mythologizing tools.
While the work engages with familiar visual languages, it does so from a place of ambivalence. These images are both indulgent and critical, sincere and constructed. At its core, this project is less about representing girlhood as it was, and more about creating space for the version that never materialized.
2026 Junior Fellows: Yuhan Cheng | Brayan Enriquez | Claire Kosky | Jacobb Nichol | Avery Norman | Dahveed Wilkins