Carter Norris is an alternative process photographer, currently based in Spruce Pine, NC. Her work uses nostalgic and narrative imagery to explore personal and familial memory through an art historical viewpoint. Norris utilizes multiple shooting methods including lomography, pinhole, and 35 mm photography, as well as various darkroom and early photographic chemical processes for capturing reminiscences. Her style and subject matter are influenced by photographic pioneers like Julia Margaret Cameron and Anna Atkins. Norris’s use of textiles references her own roots in Appalachian culture, where this female-dominated art form is culturally prolific. She seeks to express her own emotions and experiences while utilizing humor, folk culture, and utilitarian methods to challenge a male-centric art historical narrative and the binary between high and craft art.