The idea behind my photography is to uncover the "unconscious art" of the everyday. If you look more closely at seemingly banal and unspectacular sights you will often find all manner of surprising, dramatic, sad or beautiful things. Sometimes spectacular sceneries or delicate still lives manifest themselves in old walls, a suburban street or even a rusty fence, many of them as dramatic as artworks you'd go to admire in a gallery. Often when things become old, forgotten or are discarded they will become alive and acquire a character all of their own. Sometimes a piece of architecture can be a sad testament to the soulless environment that we have created for ourselves. I try to show these often overlooked moments in my photography.

Bio Barbara Fischer was born in Köln, Germany in 1966 and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1988. While she earned a bachelor's degree in the arts, she works in the hospitality industry. A self-taught photographer, she has been developing her craft during the last two years. You may view more of her work at http://flickr.com/photos/barbfi/.

Funding for metroblossom is provided in part through the generous support of The University of Chicago Arts Planning Council and Class of 2001 Gift's Student Fine Arts Fund.