<p>Regina Schmeken is one of Germany's internationally acclaimed photographers. Her work is about the perception of reality, its different levels of meaning and their condensation. Regina Schmeken began taking photographs of the NSU (National Socialist Underground) crime scenes in early 2013. With her new exhibition project “Bloody soil. Scenes of NSU crimes” in the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History in Dresden, she seeks to commemorate the victims of the murders and to confront the public with places that, at first sight, seem to bear no traces of acts of violence. Between 2013 and 2016, she paid many visits to the twelve crime scenes in Germany. Her journeys resulted in a series of large-format, disturbingly impressive black-and-white pictures. Eight male victims were of Turkish origin, one was Greek and one was a German policewoman. They were found on the ground brutally executed by right-wing terrorists. This exhibition rises up against oblivion. It commemorates those who were killed and requests to think about what happened and about the future common life.</p>