Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 – Sunday, Mar. 20, 2016

The mysterious, monumental photographs in this exhibition are one-of-a-kind negative prints by New York-based German photographer Vera Lutter (born 1960). To create these large-scale images, she transforms a darkened room, shipping container, or specially constructed box into an enormous pinhole camera. The exposures can last for days, weeks, or months. Lutter retains the negative form as the final work—a literal reflection of space and time as determined by the immediate visual environment.

Inverted Worlds presents an eerie parallel universe: images that are tonally reversed, laterally mirrored, and devoid of people because of the long exposures. The subjects range from postindustrial ruins, to the visual cacophony of Times Square, to the serenity of Venetian canals.

At a time when analog negatives are disappearing from photographic practice and process, Lutter finds new magic in the traditional materials of her medium.