| | Eva Leitolf
German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008
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.
A more detailed list of text sources can be found in the artistīs book, Eva Leitolf Deutsche Bilder - eine Spurensuche (Snoeck 2008, with texts in German and English)
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