The Tamesis
The panel explores girlhood as an internal emotional landscape in which identities are imagined, tested, and continually reinvented. Moving between fiction, collaboration, performance and projection, the artists consider girlhood not just as an age or stage, but as a space of thought, desire and imagination.
These projects do not follow linear narratives but shape inner worlds through fantasy, discipline and self-invention. Through images that move between reality and construction, intimacy and performance, the works reflect how young women negotiate visibility, authorship, and self-definition from the inside out.
About Avery Norman
Avery Norman is a Texas-born photographer currently living in New York City. Norman holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and a certificate from the International Center of Photography’s one-year program. Her images are a kind of self-mythology, a way of bridging the distance between memory, desire and identity.
About Laura Pelissier
“I look for things that shock, escape, shatter certainties. Through my images, I like to talk about beauty in its most raw form, celebrating the uniqueness of the body and face by emphasizing fragility, imperfection and silence. The body becomes the landscape and intimacy becomes the statement. I like to photograph the truest and most urgent beauty of others.”
About Elsa Hammaron
Elsa Hammarén (b. 1999, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a photographer working with analog processes in color and black and white, exploring themes of the muse, self, sexuality and relationships. She moved to Paris in 2018 to assist photographer and filmmaker JH Engström, completing the Atelier Smedsby One-Year Program (2020) and the ICP Director’s Fellowship (2024). Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in purple, meter, office magazineand Fashion Editions, and advertising commissions for Acne Studios, Hodakova, Our Legacy, Vagabond Shoemakers and WEEKDAY.
About Rennes
Lean Lui is an artist and photographer based in Hong Kong. Her first photography book “19.29” was a finalist for the prestigious Beijing Three Shadows Photography Award. Her latest book, Sterile Fields (Setanta Books, London), has been featured in The Guardian, iD, The Photographic Eye and VOGUE. Another magazine named it one of the best photos of 2023. In 2024, her work was exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong.
Moderator
About Francesca Falconi
Francesca Faccani is a writer based in Milan, currently the News and Lifestyle Editor of Vogue Italia, where since 2023 she writes about literature and art as well as online culture and nightlife. She is also a contributor to GQ Italia, responsible for features and interviews, and works with fashion brands as a copywriter. She holds an MA in American Literature and Communication Studies and lived briefly in the United States, experiences that shaped her engagement with American culture and writing. Her dissertation focuses on American writers Joan Didion, Eve Babitz and Emma Cline, reflecting her ongoing interest in exploring and dissecting the often puzzling ways in which women grow up. She started her career at the independent magazine Rivista Studio, first as an intern and then as a regular contributor, where her articles on literary and online trends were widely discussed, even on national radio. She has also been a guest lecturer at the Catholic University where she attended and at the European School of Design, speaking about American literature and journalism.
