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Artist Vera Lutter was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1960. She is best known for her unique approach to the camera obscura, or pinhole camera, in international projects where she photographically renders architecture, shipyards, airports, and abandoned factories, focusing on industrial sites that pertain to transportation and fabrication. A resident of New York City since 1993, the metropolis has served as a reoccurring subject in Lutter's work. In 2005, Lutter began the Venice series, which built on her previous recordings of industrial landscapes and cities surrounded by water. Her more recent works center on the pyramids of Egypt and the inherent decay of these ancient monuments.

Education
Lutter received her degree from the the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1991, where she trained as a sculptor, Lutter enrolled in the Photography and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts, earning her MFA in 1995.

Work
Using a camera obscura, Lutter creates large-scale images of architecture, shipyards, airports, and abandoned factories, focusing on industrial transportation and fabrication sites.

Exhibitions
Lutter's images have been exhibited in group and solo shows internationally including:
 * Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2010)
 * Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009)
 * Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002)
 * Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002)
 * Kunsthalle, Basel (2001)
 * Dia Art Foundation, New York (1999)

Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Neue Galerie New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. The photographer is represented by Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, and Galerie Xippas.