Vera Lutter is a German artist who lives and works in New York. She is best known for her representations of the city including scenes of architecture, transportation and industry, which she has often captured by turning her studio into a camera obscura and using the largest photosensitive paper available. Using long exposure times of many hours or even weeks, the inversed tones of the resulting black and white negative prints have an almost ethereal feel to them. Continuing with her use of the camera obscura, recent work has also depicted the temples and pyramids of Egypt, a Benedictine abbey in Germany, radio telescopes and Greek temples. Her work connects with early forms of photography harking back to William Henry Fox Talbot’s invention of the paper negative.