Anna Thorne is a visual artist from Florida currently living and working in New York City. Inspired by a Near Death Experience Thorne experienced several years ago, her work focusses on using natural light as a meditative vehicle for expanding consciousness through the subtle engagement of visual perception. Thorne received her M.F.A. in Studio Arts at the University of Notre Dame in 2021 on a full tuition waiver where she also worked as a Photography Instructor for two years. Her photographic thesis ‘Luminous Visions’ was exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art in 2021 and was awarded the Graduate Student Research Award through the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Subsequently, her thesis paper ‘Luminous Visions: Expanding Awareness Through the Undisclosed Lenticular Photograph’ was published by the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame. Thorne’s art and writing on photography has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Thorne’s work has most recently been exhibited in Future Resonances, a group exhibition at Kaiser Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio and in Contrasts, an international group exhibition held in Rome, Italy. Her work is in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.