Barto (b. 1992) is an American artist living and working between the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Brooklyn, New York. For more than fifteen years, he has been quietly documenting the world around him — its people, landscapes, and fleeting moments — through film photography, moving image, and the written word. Rooted in a rural and surf-soaked upbringing, his work carries the unhurried cadence of someone who has always known how to watch and listen before reaching for a camera, moving fluidly between the coastal and the urban, the tender and the raw. Analog photography has been the foundation of his practice from the beginning — a deliberate commitment to slowness and intention in an age that rewards the opposite. There is a wistful quality to everything he makes; a sense that beauty and loss are never far from one another, and that both deserve to be held with equal care. His is a body of work built on presence — the kind that only comes from showing up, again and again, with open eyes.