Vera Lutter is a contemporary German photographer known for her large-scale images of shipyards, airports, factories, and the Egyptian pyramids. Captured with a camera obscura (pinhole camera) that the artist made from plywood, Lutter’s works take hours or sometimes weeks of exposure and result in a negative print of the scene. “My way of working is very hands-off. I install the apparatus of observation, the camera, and then endure the process of observation and record whatever happens,” she has explained. “The work is essentially about the passage of time, not about ideas of representation.” Born in 1960 in Kaiserslauten, Germany, she received her undergraduate degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1991. In 1993, she moved to New York and began studying in the photography and related media program at the School of Visual Arts. Her early versions of the camera obscura consisted of an enclosed, room-sized space that had an aperture in one wall. Lutter subsequently transformed an entire room of her New York apartment into a camera obscura. The artist continues to live and work in New York, NY. Today, her works are held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.