Book launch and exhibition opening
THU 24 July 2008 | 19.00
Exhibition 25 July - 16 November 2008
THU 09 October | 19.00 | Artist speaks at the exhibition
Volume of photographs by SNOECK, Cologne
Hardcover, 88 p., 44 full page color photographs, 34 Euro
ISBN 978-3-936859-90-4
In German Images - Looking for Evidence photographer Eva Leitolf turns her attention to racist crimes in Germany and the ways they are discussed in society. In the early 1990s she photographed crime scenes, victims and perpetrators, and uninvolved bystanders. Returning to the theme in 2006, she reduced the visual content to nothing more than the places where the crimes had been commited, combined her images with meticulously researched texts about the events themselves and the way they were dealt with afterwards politically, by the courts, and in the media. Conceived as a long-term study, this work challenges the way society deals with racist violence and in the process tests the bounds and possibilities of what can be said visually.