Paolo Pellegrin

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Paolo Pellegrin in Hamburg on the occasion of his exhibition in the Deichtorhalle

Paolo Pellegrin (born March 11, 1964 in Rome ) is an Italian photographer .

Life

Pellegrin graduated from the Institute of Photography in Rome. In the early 1990s he went to Paris and in the following years worked as a photo journalist for various international publications. In 1995 he received his first World Press Photo award for his recordings of AIDS in Uganda . In 2000 he received a grant from the Hasselblad Foundation. To date, Pellegrin has won the World Press Photo Award ten times.

He became a Magnum Photos Associate in 2001 and a full member in 2005. Pellegrin also has close links with Newsweek magazine . In particular, his work in the context of war reporting made him known, for example, he was deployed during the Kosovo War in 1999, the Darfur conflict in 2004 and the Lebanon War in 2006, in which he himself narrowly escaped death from rocket fire. Although his pictures are primarily concerned with war, he also focuses on people's hatred, suffering and grief. He himself sees his role in "creating records for our collective memory". Despite the harshness and directness of the subjects presented, his recordings are characterized by compositional elegance.

Pellegrin lives alternately in Rome and New York .

Exhibitions

He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. For example:

  • Double Blind CVZ Contemporary New York City 2007
  • Broken Landscape Museo di Roma in Trastevere May 31 - September 9, 2007
  • Traces of War Malmo Museer November 19, 2005 - February 19, 2006
  • The War of Desires House of Photography Moscow
  • Israel and Palestine im Bildens Hus fotomuseet Sundsvall September 10 - September 11, 2004
  • Apocalypse: Contemporary visions at Candace Dwan Gallery New York City May 30-July 27, 2007
  • PhotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma in Zone Attive srl April 6th - June 3rd 2007
  • Turkey by Magnum at Istanbul Modern February 15 - May 20, 2007
  • Paolo Pellegrin Retrospective at VKB Munich October 12, 2011 - February 20, 2012
  • Paolo Pellegrin in ZEIT magazine at Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth Bodenburg January 9th - February 12th 2012
  • Paolo Pellegrin - un'Antoligia in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg October 31, 2019 - March 1, 2020

Awards

Illustrated books, works

  • Cambogia Federico Motta Editore 1998
  • L'au delà est là Le Point du Jour 2001
  • Paolo Pellegrin: Kosovo 1999 - 2000 - The Flight of Reason Trolley 2002
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Scott Anderson: Double Blind: Was in Lebanon 2006 Trolley 2007
  • Thomas Osterkorn (Ed.): Paolo Pellegrin . Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-19847-6
  • As I was dying . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89904284-9
  • Paolo Pellegrin: Storm Silvana Editoriale 2010
  • with Stefan Pielow: New York . Mare, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Show of Paolo Pellegrin's work in Hamburg. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Simon Usborne: Paolo Pellegrin: Witness to history , The Independent February 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Cover text on As I lay dying  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutscher-fotobuchpreis.de  
  4. ^ Zephyr Room for Photography, Mannheim
  5. ^ New York: Homage to Sea Tropolis. In: Zeit Online. October 26, 2011, accessed November 4, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Pellegrin, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome