His is a body of work built on presence - the kind that only comes from showing up, again and again, with open eyes.
Barto (b. 1992) is an American artist working between the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Brooklyn, New York. For over fifteen years, he has documented the people, landscapes, and fleeting moments around him through film photography, moving image, and writing. Rooted in a rural, surf-soaked upbringing, his work moves fluidly between coastal and urban, young and old, tender and raw - built on the discipline of showing up, again and again, with open eyes.