No two towns or cities are the same. They can look like one another, but there is always something which can be called identity, something that makes them different from all others. This can reveal itself in details, or in broad outlines; the variations are endless - although it is strikingly often the ordinary and not the exceptional things that prove to be distinctive.

Drawing from all genres of photography, from architecture to street scenes, from interiors to portraits, Barz (Germany, 1961) seeks to typify geographic characteristics. For example, she recorded the former border between East and West Germany, and photographed along the present external boundaries of her land of birth. Barz followed the photography courses at the Rietveld Academy and St. Joost Academy, Breda, and for some years now has lived in Amsterdam.