​Media invitation: Interview options and preview of the photo exhibition TARGETS

On Thursday 24 September the photo exhibition TARGETS opens at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The exhibition shows how images of the enemy are created and changed. The German photographer Herlinde Koelbl has travelled the world to photograph the targets soldiers shoot at when they are training to kill.

Koelbl will be in Oslo to mount the exhibition. From Saturday 19 September through Thursday 24 September, media can conduct prearranged interviews and get a preview of the exhibition while it is being set up.

To arrange a time for interviews, please contact Ingvill Bryn Rambøl ibr@nobelpeacecenter.org or Kirsti Svenning ks@nobelpeacecenter.org

About the exhibition:
On a cold winter’s day 30 years ago, the German photographer Herlinde Koelbl visited a military camp in her homeland. As she walked across the shooting range, she saw a silhouette full of bullet holes. The early morning light was shining through the perforations. It was a beautiful sight, but also an illustration of power and aggression. Koelbl took a picture of the target. It was never published, but the idea for the exhibition Targets was born.

Over the past few years Herlinde Koelbl has visited military training camps in 27 countries, and photographed the targets that the soldiers use when they are training to kill. She has been in Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, China, Russia, Turkey and Israel. Only North Korea denied her access.

“I wanted to show how the enemy is depicted in different parts of the world,” she says. “Some targets have faces and look like real people. Some look like children, or your neighbour. The enemy has many faces and a different appearance, depending on where in the world you are.”

Program for the exhibition opening Thursday 24 September

18.00 ARTIST TALK
Journalist Kadafi Zaman interviews Herlinde Koelbl.

19.00 EXHIBITION OPENING
Bjørn Tore Godal, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Defence, opens the exhibition.
Speeches by Herlinde Koelbl and Germany’s Ambassador to Norway Dr. Axel Berg.
Music by Guro von Germeten.

The exhibition opening will be conducted in English.

After the end of the programme, the exhibition will be open to the public, and the party continues at the Nobel Peace Center’s café Alfred until 22.00.