She specializes in documentary features and social issues in the region and throughout the world. Before coming to Georgia, she has lived in Turkey, Tanzania, South Africa and Germany. Uta is a master degree graduate in Sociology and Economics of the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2012, Uta finished her MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London, College of Communication, with distinction. Uta has completed a long-term documentary project on a Tbilisi suburb that will culminate in a book to be published in 2013, and has started working on her second long-term project in Georgia.