When Barbara Huber was eight years old, her mother, a passionate photographer, gifted her a little brownie - she has been taking pictures ever since. (Except for a stretch of about 10 years when she decided to quit photography cold turkey – but that is another story.)

In her work she documents the world around her on several levels. For one, she loves to observe human interaction. She is the person that can be found in the back of the movie theater, at the fringe of the crowd, on top of the stairs, just watching. It is a certain distance that provides the best view. This is especially true when it comes to the “condition of the human heart”. Barbara’s fascination lies not with grandiose events but the hidden lines of non-verbal communication between people that are all around. Her goal is to make them visible – a fragment of an interaction here, a gesture there, a look, a little spark… all the tiny details and little secret connections that become apparent only when photographed.

It is these “moments” she is after, the unaltered, often even unconscious, so her pictures are never staged. Any interaction between photographer and his object for the purpose of a particular photography destroys the secret of the moment.

As a trained art historian, she is also particularly keen on preservation; not just the preservation of "moments", but also locations and the history contained therein. Traveling fuels that passion and every trip is a conversation between past and future carried on in the present moment.

To pull all of these layers of communication out into the open, to document and thereby preserve them is a driving force behind Barbara’s creativity.