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11/4/2003

John Pilger

Nikolaj Kunsthal - Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen

REPORTING THE WORLD

John Pilger: This exhibition is the realisation of a fond ambition of mine. Almost from the day I went on the road as a newspaper correspondent, my best work has been in harness, and comradeship, with some of the great photographers of my time whose distinctive role as story-tellers and truth-tellers is now in danger of disappearing . The exhibition will explore the complex issue of how the press influences the way that conceptions of reality as well as political opinions are formed, an issue which is highly topical and urgent these days. Throughout his long career John Pilger, one of the world s most controversial media figures, has been documenting wars, political violence, racism, hunger, poverty and immigration. John Pilger s approach is a critical one, and the story he has to tell may not always be a pleasant one. For he reports his stories as they are, without adorning them. John Pilger s conviction of the effect of using powerful images to support the printed word has resulted in close co-operation with many prominent photographers.

The pictures open and elaborate the texts and vice versa. The more than 200 photographs from the 1960 s and up to the present provide an historical perspective on the questions being discussed so intensely these weeks, on the very truth value of photo-journalism. John Pilger and his photographers here function as eyewitnesses to our immediate past; but in the process they also come to represent the actual historiography of these events. Seen in this perspective, the exhibition calls for a debate about the interrelationship of reality and art, or truth and construction and the question of whether or not it is possible to tell these concepts apart.

The following great photographers are included: Nabil El-Jerani, Keith Bernstein, Tom Buist, Steve Cox, Nic Dunlop, Gerrit Fokkema, Kent Gavin, John Garrett, Curt Gunther, Philip Jones Griffiths, Matt Herron, Marion Kaplan, Chris Menges, Susan Meiselas, David Munro, Shigeru Oda, John Pilger, Eric Piper, Ken Regan, Peter Stone, Penny Tweedie, Anastasia Vrachnos, Paul Weinberg and Boris Yaro. The exhibition has been divided geographically into the following sections: Cambodia, Vietnam, East Timor, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Africa, USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Central America, Indonesia, Iraq and Japan.

Opening Per Folkver, head of photography at the newspaper Politiken, will speak at the opening on Friday, April 11 at 4-6 p.m. - P.T.O

MEET JOHN PILGER Debate at Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, April 25 at 3-5 p.m. John Pilger will introduce his long-standing co-operation with the photographers of the exhibition. Together with Steffen Gram, editor of DR s foreign policy programme Horisont he will discuss the conditions, roles and responsibilities of journalism. Tickets can be ordered on t: +45 33931626.

On April 24 John Pilger will be present at the Cinemateket of the Danish Film Institute at the showing of his film Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq. Discussion after the film. Tickets can be ordered on t: +45 33743412. The debate as well as the showing of the film take place in co-operation with the LUFTSKIBET, the forum for systems debate of the newspaper Information. Five documentaries by John Pilger During the entire exhibition period the following five documentaries by John Pilger will be shown at the video cinema of Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center: Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994/1999), Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996/1998), Welcome to Australia (1999), Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000) and The New Rulers of the World (2001).

Catalogue
A exhibition catalogue (in English) has been published with an introductory article by John Pilger and a selection of exhibition photographs in b/w and colour. Presentation to children and young persons As a new service, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, is now able to offer presentations of all of its exhibitions specifically for children and young persons. In connection with Reporting the World, an educational programme of one and a half hours is available for children between 14 and 18 years. The presentation is free, and it is arranged as an active dialogue with the pupils about central and topical themes of the exhibition.

Reporting the World has been created by John Pilger in co-operation with the Barbican Art Gallery in London, an art institution run and financed by the Corporation of London. John Pilger was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He is one of only two journalists to win Britain s highest award, Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Vietnam and Cambodia. Among a number of other awards, he has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Media Peace Price. For his broadcasting he has won France s Reporter sans Frontires, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

The exhibition has received support from the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions and the Union of Danish Metalworkers.

Additional information and press photographs on t: +45 33931626

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