Works
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Tijuana - A girl celebrating her quinceañera along the U.S.-Mexico border. Tijuana, Mexico, 2019
    Tijuana - A girl celebrating her quinceañera along the U.S.-Mexico border. Tijuana, Mexico, 2019
  • Paolo Pellegrin, NASA IceBridge flight surveying climate change in Antarctica. Aerial taken from a NASA P3 plane flying over TanDEM-X B. Antarctica, 2017
    NASA IceBridge flight surveying climate change in Antarctica. Aerial taken from a NASA P3 plane flying over TanDEM-X B. Antarctica, 2017
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Refugees from the village of Buharbuq, near Bashiqa. Told by ISIS that they were to be moved to Mosul the following day, the village residents fled their homes in the middle of the night and took refuge behind Peshmerga lines. Iraq, 2016
    Refugees from the village of Buharbuq, near Bashiqa. Told by ISIS that they were to be moved to Mosul the following day, the village residents fled their homes in the middle of the night and took refuge behind Peshmerga lines. Iraq, 2016
  • Paolo Pellegrin, At a wedding, Jackmel, Haiti, 2006
    At a wedding, Jackmel, Haiti, 2006
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Civilians sift through the rubble looking for survivors following an Israeli air raid. Beirut, Lebanon, 2006
    Civilians sift through the rubble looking for survivors following an Israeli air raid. Beirut, Lebanon, 2006
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Boko Haram - A counseling session at Neem, an organization offering psychological support for victims of Boko Haram. Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2017
    Boko Haram - A counseling session at Neem, an organization offering psychological support for victims of Boko Haram. Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2017
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Congo, Pointe-Noire, 2014
    Congo, Pointe-Noire, 2014
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Helicopter used by U.S. and Afghan drug interdiction troops. Afghanistan, 2006
    Helicopter used by U.S. and Afghan drug interdiction troops. Afghanistan, 2006
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Palestinian girls floating on the waters of the Dead Sea. West Bank, 2009
    Palestinian girls floating on the waters of the Dead Sea. West Bank, 2009
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Serbian women mourn a man killed by Albanians. Obilić, Kosovo, 2000
    Serbian women mourn a man killed by Albanians. Obilić, Kosovo, 2000
  • Paolo Pellegrin, The funeral of a victim killed during an Israeli Defense Forces incursion in Jenin. West Bank, 2012
    The funeral of a victim killed during an Israeli Defense Forces incursion in Jenin. West Bank, 2012
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Aerial view from a NASA Orion P3 plane, flying over Antarctica, 2017
    Aerial view from a NASA Orion P3 plane, flying over Antarctica, 2017
  • Paolo Pellegrin, NASA IceBridge flight surveying climate change in Antarctica. Aerial taken from a NASA P3 plane flying over South Peninsula A. Antarctica, 2017
    NASA IceBridge flight surveying climate change in Antarctica. Aerial taken from a NASA P3 plane flying over South Peninsula A. Antarctica, 2017
Biography
View works. Paolo Pellegrin, Helicopter used by U.S. and Afghan drug interdiction troops. Afghanistan, 2006
Helicopter used by U.S. and Afghan drug interdiction troops. Afghanistan, 2006
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Paolo Pellegrin has travelled to some of the Earth’s harshest and most extreme environments, to bring back photographs which speak to a profound communality of human experience. He was born in 1964 in Rome and initially studied architecture at l'Università la Sapienza, Rome before pursuing his studies in photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. Between 1991 and 2001, Pellegrin was represented by the Parisian photography agency, Agence VU. In 2001, he was nominated to become a member of Magnum Photos and in 2005 became a full member. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years.
 
In his career as a photojournalist, Pellegrin has been awarded many prizes including ten World Press Photo awards and numerous Photographer of the Year awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
 
His publications include Terre Spezzate (Contrasto, Italy, 2016), Paolo Pellegrin (Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern 2012); Dies Irae (Contrasto, Italy, 2011); Photo Poche (Actes Sud, 2010); As I Was Dying (Actes Sud, France, 2007); Double Blind (Trolley, 2007); Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason (Trolley, USA, 2002); L'au delà est là (Le Point du Jour, France, 2001); Cambogia (Federico Motta Editore, Italy,1998) and Bambini (Sinnos, Italy, 1997).
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