Casey Orr is an American photographer, artist and educator.

She has lived in the UK for over 30 years working on a variety of

commissions and personal projects. Her work has taken her across the North Atlantic Ocean by containership, throughout the USA, UK and Europe photographing anarchists, behind the walls of HMP Leeds Prison, and into the lives of the many people she collaborates with through portraiture.

Saturday Girl is Orr’s award winning photographic portrait project. Since 2013 she has travelled the UK with her pop-up portrait studio Saturday Town, documenting youth culture on Saturday afternoons; exploring identity and self expression. She works over months and sometimes years in each location making exhibitions,

publications and collaborative artworks. Saturday Town is about the language of fashion and street style and how the values and beliefs of young people can be read through fashion, giving voice to the

generations that will shape our world. A book, Saturday Girl was published by Bluecoat Press in 2021 and the exhibition won the Format Festival award in 2019. The work has developed into further publications and exhibitions as Saturday Town. A major retrospective of this project was shown at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool in 2024

and at the Herbert Gallery & Museum, Coventry in 2026, and is now touring.

Her work has been shown in various galleries in the US (Jen Bekman Gallery, New York; ATA Gallery, San Francisco; University of the Arts, Philadelphia; San Antonio College Gallery; Texas), as well as in galleries, museums, publications and festivals in the UK including Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, The Palace of Westminster, Tate

Exchange, Tate Liverpool, Look Liverpool International Photography Festival, Brighton Photo Biennale, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Observer Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, The National Portrait Gallery, London and (the first time the walls of a prison have been used as a space for art) at HM Prison, Leeds.

Casey has also worked extensively on photography and film projects with Homotopia, Liverpool, Queer Cumbria, Mid-Pennine Arts, Burnley, Signal Film & Media, Barrow, Tees Valley Arts, Redcar and Stockroom, Stockport.

Casey works with LGBTQ+ youth groups on film and photography projects. She recently directed the short films Nobody’s Born Hatin’ with Queer Cumbria and Cumbria Police and Little Billy by Jen Reid.

Orr’s work is supported by Arts Council England and Historic England.