Uta Barth (born 1958)

Uta Barth is a contemporary German-American photographer who addresses themes of visual perception, optical illusion and light.

“I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer’s attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process”

“How can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is you are looking at?”

Barth uses natural qualities of light to capture incidental and passing moments such as natural sheens, glares and shadows that make up our everyday habits and life. She calls our attention to the limits of the human eye.

I love Barth's work because of how she manages to capture the beauty of mundane and incidental subject matter and display them in compelling images, and her work is a good example of finding inspiration from our everyday, ordinary surroundings. When looking at her photography, there is a sense of being made aware of one’s peripheral vision, of what you see in passing at a glance or in the background.

Research for sculpture and photography

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