https://carterleaphotography.com/home daily 1.0 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2f65bb3fc6301311363744/5fad2e59-349f-48f4-b973-16ceb523a0d2/CNo+%281%29+2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2f65bb3fc6301311363744/bc67d5ce-cdd9-4070-a097-f3af9c588293/SKM_C25822031714320.jpg Home - Texture and Light This is an exchange of mediums, resulting in visual studies marrying techniques of weaving and darkroom photography. This is part of an ongoing collaboration with Amy Tromiczak of Umlaut Textiles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2f65bb3fc6301311363744/1611953142928-RGNISGYLF6EYOPHNMW2S/Buddleja.jpg Home - Comfort Comfort is an ongoing series exploring regional natural flora through various darkroom photographic methods. This project began during my COVID-19 isolation as a grounding technique to connect me with my natural surroundings. With 'Comfort' I celebrate the beauty and vitality of nature's femininity, and acknowledge it as an integral part of the surrounding world: a nurtured strength of women through our connection with nature. Select pieces from Comfort are featured in the Silent Fire exhibition. The show can be found at https://nastywomenct.org/april-day. For the whole exhibition visit https://nastywomenct.org/silentfire , or find more information @thesilentfireproject on instagram. https://carterleaphotography.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-03-01 https://carterleaphotography.com/about daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2f65bb3fc6301311363744/5b4b5a90-efec-46bd-828e-9121a5a65461/Carter+headshot+1.jpg About - About Carter Norris is an alternative process photographer, currently based in Western North Carolina. 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. Carter currently works out of Treats Studios in downtown Spruce Pine, NC. A Note from the Artist We are still working through the impact of Hurricane Helene on our beautiful community in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Please consider donating, or using your voice to advocate for the incredible people and organizations working to bring financial, emotional, and physical relief to our home. Click here to learn more about recovery needs specific to artists . You can also find information on the relief and rebuilding in my town, Spruce Pine, here. In a modern age, clean water, food, housing, and basic infrastructure are not only necessities, but human rights. While we are working to recover these things in many areas of WNC, Israel continues to weaponize the same basic rights against Palestinian civilians. While the Trump administration has cut off disaster relief funding for those impacted by Hurricane Helene, our government continues to fund genocide in Palestine. Appalachians need to acknowledge this reality when sharing our story. In addition to the genocide in Palestine that U.S. tax dollars continue to fund, the Sudanese people are also in need of humanitarian support as they continue to persevere through genocide, civil war, and famine. No one should live without clean water, food, housing, and the basic infrastructure many of us take for granted. Below are links to help you get started on having difficult conversations, further your education, or donate to humanitarian efforts. ( I am not an expert. These are simply sources I’ve personally found helpful.) Articles: Center for Racial Justice in Education, resources for Educators and Families about Palestine and Israel UN Refugee Agency, Sudan Crisis Explained U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, South Sudan Books: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi On Palestine, by Ilan Pappé & Noam Chomsky The World After Gaza, by Pankaj Mishra War and Genocide in South Sudan, by Clémence Pinaud Donate: World Central Kitchen Many Lands Mutual Aid Doctors Without Borders UN Crisis Relief https://carterleaphotography.com/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2025-04-30 https://carterleaphotography.com/work daily 0.75 2025-05-01 https://carterleaphotography.com/work/photos-from-my-grandmother monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2f65bb3fc6301311363744/1613764774322-ZTEJ0PKFDWVOJ9WQIB3F/May%2BDay%2B1950%2B2.jpg Work - Photos from my Grandmother Baptists Participating in Pagan Ritual, 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2f65bb3fc6301311363744/1613764026681-8NFBV6EK8YLU9LE7AR58/At%2BHome%2Bin%2BMint%2BHill%2BA2.jpg Work - 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