This panel explores girlhood as an inner, emotional landscape where identity is imagined, tested, and continuously reshaped. Moving between fiction, collaboration, performance, and projection, the artists treat girlhood not simply as an age or phase, but as a space of thought, desire, and imagination.
Rather than following linear narratives, these projects give form to inner worlds shaped by fantasy, discipline, and self-invention. Through images that move between reality and construction, intimacy and performance, the works reflect on how young women negotiate visibility, authorship, and self-definition from the inside out.
About Avery Norman
Avery Norman is a Texas born photographer currently based in New York City. Norman holds a BFA from Pratt Institute as well as a certificate from International Center of Photography’s one year program. Her images serve as a form of self-mythology, a way of bridging the distance between memory, desire, and identity.
About Laura Pelissier
“I look for what vibrates, what escapes, what shatters certainties. Through my images, I like to speak of beauty in its rawest form, celebrating the singularity of bodies and faces by emphasising fragility, imperfection and silence. The body becomes a landscape and intimacy a manifesto. I like to photograph other people, in their truest and most urgent beauty.”
About Elsa Hammarén
Elsa Hammarén (b. 1999, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a photographer working with analog processes in color and B&W, exploring themes of the muse, self, sexuality, and relationships. She moved to Paris in 2018, assisting photographer and filmmaker JH Engström, completed the One Year Program Atelier Smedsby (2020), and the ICP Director’s Fellowship (2024). Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in Purple, Metrograph, Office Magazine, and Vogue editions, with advertising commissions for Acne Studios, Hodakova, Our Legacy, Vagabond Shoemakers, and WEEKDAY.
About Lean Lui
Lean Lui is an artist and photographer based in Hong Kong. Her debut photography book, 19.29, was a finalist for the prestigious Beijing Three Shadows Photography Award. Her latest book, Aseptic Field (Setanta Books, London), has been featured by The Guardian, i-D, The Eye of Photography, and VOGUE. Another Magazine recognized it as one of the Best Photos of 2023.In 2024, her work was exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong.
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About Francesca Faccani
Francesca Faccani is a writer based in Milan and currently serves as News and Lifestyle Editor at Vogue Italia, where since 2023 she has written about literature and art as much as online culture and nightlife. She is also a contributor to GQ Italia, where she works on features and interviews, and collaborates with fashion brands as a copywriter. She holds a Master’s degree in American Literature and Communication Studies, and lived briefly in the United States, experiences that shaped her engagement with American culture and writing. Her thesis focused on American authors Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and Emma Cline, reflecting her ongoing interest in exploring and dissecting the often convoluted ways women experience growing up. She began her career at the independent magazine Rivista Studio, as an intern and then as a regular contributor, where her pieces on literature and online trends were widely discussed, even on national radio. She has also been a guest lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where she studied, and at Istituto Europeo di Design, speaking about American literature and Journalism.