Leupold's photographic art does not require description; it is revealed by looking closely at each individual – a school of seeing that offers insights into contexts. Entire stories are focussed in the one all-bundling key image, from which a narrative can be read backwards and forwards – a game with our ability to associate – a test of our perceptive capacity – seemingly affirmative and conserving, but in reality critically reflecting and challenging us to think further... 

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Eckhardt, Director of the Berliner Festspiele 1973-2001: from the laudatory speech at the opening of the exhibition The Past Has Only Just Begun at the Art and Media Centre, in Berlin-Adlershof 2003