MUNICH.- In her complex work created between 1992 and 2008 - »Deutsche Bilder - eine Spurensuche« (»German Images - Looking for Evidence«) - the photographer Eva Leitolf engages in a discourse concerning xenophobically motivated acts of violence and the social debate surrounding them.

The pictures, which she took in the early to mid-1990s, reflect the scenes of the attacks, the sympathisers and innocent bystanders. When Eva Leitolf returned to this assignment in 2006, she reduced the content of the images to what took place and how this was treated in legal, media and political circles. Her work, conceived from the outset as an ongoing study, questions the way society deals with xenophobically motivated violence and tests the possibilities and limitations of what can be caught on camera.