Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter is a German artist known for her large-scale photographs that capture industrial and architectural spaces. Born in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1960, Lutter studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she currently lives and works.

Lutter's signature technique involves using a camera obscura, a large pinhole camera that allows her to capture images of the outside world onto photographic paper. She then develops the paper in a darkroom, producing unique, negative images that have a haunting and otherworldly quality.

Her photographs often depict iconic structures such as the Brooklyn Bridge, the Grand Canyon, and the skyscrapers of New York City. By using the camera obscura to capture these images, Lutter is able to transform the familiar into something unfamiliar, emphasizing the ways in which our perceptions of space and time are shaped by our surroundings.