LEXINGTON, Va. March 11, 2026 — Virginia Military Institute welcomes photographer Anna Gage Norton, Thursday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Pogue Auditorium, Marshall Library. Norton will discuss her forthcoming book, “On Nochaway,” a long-term photo-documentary project about her family’s efforts to reestablish the longleaf pine ecosystem on their ancestral farm in South Georgia. The event is free and open to the public.

Norton’s work deals with her relationship to place and centers around questions of historical and geological time, the animate and inanimate, permanence and transience. She exhibits in solo and group shows regionally and throughout the United States.

Norton received her Master of Fine Arts in photography from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia. She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Norton’s photographs have been published widely in such major journals as the Oxford American and Southern Cultures. She is on the leadership team of Kinship Photography Collective and a member of the executive committee of Slow Exposures. She currently lives in Highlands, North Carolina, where she continues her photography and videography for her personal and professional work.

The event is sponsored by the Institute Honors Program and the Dean’s Academic Speakers Program.

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