Summer Wagner is an American photographer and film director based in Los Angeles. She studied film in college, planning to write and direct films, and took up the camera as her main medium in 2020, beginning with staged self-portraits.
Her cinematic, painterly photographs turn real people and places into quietly surreal scenes, as in the series Midamerican Fever Dream. She names the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and the photographer Gregory Crewdson as key influences. In 2023 Setanta Books and Open Doors Gallery published her zine 015 - Summer Wagner.
