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Paolo Pellegrin

2025 Honoree / Achievement in Photojournalism

Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at Università La Sapienza, before studying photography at Istituto Italiano di Fotografia.

Between 1991 and 2001 Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001 he became a Magnum Photos nominee and a full member in 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years.

Pellegrin is a winner of many awards, including eleven World Press Photo awards, an Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, and the Leica European Publishers Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.

His photographs have been exposed in numerous museums and galleries among which: Maison Européenne de La Photographie; Rencontres d’Arles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art; MAXXI in Rome; Aperture Foundation Gallery; Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; Deichtorhallen in Hamburg; Reggia di Venaria Reale and Gallerie d’Italia in Turin; Wolfsburg Museum; Stanze della Fotografia in Venice.

His books include Event Horizont (Marsilio Arte, Italy 2023); La Fragile Meraviglia (Skira, Italy, 2022); Des Oiseaux (Éditions Xavier Barral, France, 2021); Alps – Aosta Valley (Forte di Bard editore, Italy, 2019); Paolo Pellegrin, curated by Germano Celant (Silvana Editoriale, Italy, 2018), Terre Spezzate (Contrasto, Italy, 2016); 100 Photos of Paolo Pellegrin for Press Freedom (Reporters Sans Frontières, France, 2013); Paolo Pellegrin (Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern, Germany, 2012); Dies Irae (Contrasto, Italy, 2011); Photo Poche (Actes Sud, France, 2010); As I Was Dying (Actes Sud, France, 2007); Double Blind (Trolley, UK, 2007); Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason (Trolley, UK, 2002); L’au-delà est là (Le Point du Jour, France, 2001); Cambogia (Federico Motta Editore, Italy, 1998), Bambini (Sinnos, Italy, 1997).

In over thirty years of work he has been focused on issues connected to the human condition, from wars to the effects of global climate change, trying to be a witness for our times.

Website: www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/paolo-pellegrin

At the site of the Al Qassam mosque (one of 60 mosques bombeed by the IDF during the war) in the Nuseirat refugee camp rescuers look for surviors and the bodies of those killed shortly after an IDF F-16 targeted the building. At the end of hours of searching the bodies of 4 men where extracted. Gaza 2014

Due to the long hours of wait in extreme heat and the general exhaustion refugees sometimes collapse and faint. in early september 2015 an estimated 15,000 to 20, 000 refugees, roughly 70% of whom Syrians, are waiting to complete their registration with the authorities in Mytilini, capital city of the Greek island of Lesbos. For most the living conditions are miserable; sleeping on the ground, no access to toliets, extreme temperatures. The Greek authorities have been overwhelmed by the number of refugees and the registration process has slowed down enormously. it takes 7 to 10 days for refugees to get the document that will allow them to buy a ferry ticket and be transferred to the mainlnad. From there the vast majority will continue north to the Macedonian border continuing their journey towards western europe. Lesbos, Greece 2015 Due to the long hours of wait in extreme heat and the general exhaustion refugees sometimes collapse and faint. In early september 2015 an estimated 15,000 to 20, 000 refugees, roughly 70% of whom Syrians, are waiting to complete their registration with the authorities in Mytilini, capital city of the Greek island of Lesbos. For most the living conditions are miserable; sleeping on the ground, no access to toliets, extreme temperatures. The Greek authorities have been overwhelmed by the number of refugees and the registration process has slowed down enormously. it takes 7 to 10 days for refugees to get the document that will allow them to buy a ferry ticket and be transferred to the mainlnad. From there the vast majority will continue north to the Macedonian border continuing their journey towards western europe. Lesbos, Greece 2015

Kurdish peshmerga mourn the death of one of their comrades, a tank driver killed by an ISIS sniper, as they were about to leave Bashiqa after a day of battle. Iraq 2016

Norwegian army conscripts patrol the Norwegian-Russian border near OP Mike. Norway 2023