Peggy Kleiber (1940-2015) photographed from the early 1960s until 1990, a period of almost three decades during which she documented family, social and political subjects. For her, the family was more than a private retreat. With sensitivity and photographic precision, she documented family rituals, celebrations and everyday gestures over decades. She also photographed people, political movements and landscapes in Italy, her second home. Other parts of her archive record travels to Prague, New York and many other places. Her photographs reveal the unseen, the personal within the political  always marked by intimacy, subtlety and an independent approach to the medium. She photographed continuously from the early 1960s until 1990, a period of profound change in both her personal life and across Europe.

Ten years after her death, her remarkable photographic legacy of some 15,000 negatives will be shown for the first time in her home region. The exhibition at Photoforum offers a long-overdue perspective on the work of a woman whose images are both timeless and deeply relevant today. The project is a collaboration with Judith Luks (Clandestin éditions) and gallerist Isabel Balzer (see you next tuesday), who manage the archive. A publication will accompany the exhibition.

The exhibition and its accompanying program are made possible thanks to the support of the Vinetum Foundation, Ursula Wirz Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Leica Switzerland and Gebäudeversicherung Bern.