Christiane Eisler

Christiane Eisler has been working as a freelance photographer in Leipzig since the 1980s. Born in Berlin in 1958, Christiane moved in 1978 to Leipzig to study photography at the Academy of Fine Arts. She graduated in 1983 in Evelyn Richter's class. She specialises in social documentary photography, particularly interested in youth cultures and comparative observations of places and people over long periods of time. Portraits are at the centre of her work.

In the 1980s, Eisler experienced and documented the wild beginnings of the punk movement in the GDR, mainly in Leipzig and Berlin. She took unique photographs of excessive concerts and gatherings and, above all, very personal portraits.