célia norma (born 1993, in liège) is an alternative processes visual storyteller—their preferred medium include 135, medium format and instant films. since 2016, she aspires to make some shades of the invisible visible—often by exploring the themes of disability, melancholia and grief, but also hope and sisterhood. in october 2023, they started experimenting with cyanotype printing and toning, which led her to newfound passions for the physicality of art. she hopes to keep learning alternative photographic & printing processes in the future.

her art is heavily inspired by romanticism, pictorialism, and gothic literature—some of her favourite artists, poets & writers are julia margaret cameron, anne brigman, clarence h. white, ellen rogers, edna st vincent millay, shirley jackson, the brontë sisters & virginia woolf.

They’ve been featured on lomography, photovogue, l’oeil de la photographie,… and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions—most recently at studio baxton in brussels.

She currently works part time as a bookseller for an independent bookshop.

Contact: celianorma@proton.me