“They are quite big, almost the real size of the targets, and the gallery will display them as if it is a shooting gallery, so you will get a sense of: ‘My goodness, what are you doing?’” She says photographing the targets, rather than displaying them as artworks, allowed her to light them to show the bullet holes more clearly and to impose a degree of uniformity across the 17 images in the exhibition. I felt it was a more interesting comment on American gun culture to see what damage it can do to a body than any photo of a man and a kid holding a gun.” “To me it was a bigger statement to interview the shooters, take away the targets that they’d shot at, and bring them back to London and photograph them. It was those targets that fascinated her. 357 Magnum revolver, Beretta 9mm pistol and Colt 5.56mm rifle to shoot at this target. ‘Me and my husband go to different gun clubs all the time,’ said the 32-year-old ‘stay-at-home mom’, who used her own Smith & Wesson. All the people that go choose what they want to shoot at.” They were extraordinary, non-PC targets, all beautifully done – characters that looked like Muslims, a thuggish-type burglar, a man with a hostage.
“On that first visit, I couldn’t believe the poster targets. Instead, she photographed the targets after they had been shot up. But she didn’t photograph the club’s patrons – she felt that had been overdone. She cultivated the owners of the range, and made several further visits to take photographs. The experience gave Hilton an idea for a different sort of shoot. I’d never held a gun in my life, and I couldn’t believe someone would give me live ammunition.” I was terrified, especially when they told me you must never pick up a gun and turn around to talk to someone. 44 Magnum revolver, which is what Clint Eastwood used in Dirty Harry.
“I was given a 10-minute induction, and then we took four guns into the range – a pump-action shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, a Glock and a. She discovered the gun club 18 months ago when her assistants suggested they pay a visit while they were doing an advertising shoot in LA.
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This target was shot by a general labourer, aged 26, with a 38 calibre pistol: ‘I wanted to learn how to shoot in case anything happens.’ Photograph: Jane Hilton
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