Paolo Pellegrin

Fellow

Paolo Pellegrin originally studied architecture before discovering his passion for photography. The subjects he pursues include immigration, AIDS, terrorism, slavery and voodoo. In 2006, he won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project "Maktub - It is written. A journey through the lands of Islam."

Pellegrin became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. He has won many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous POY Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis and in 2007, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. More recently, he was awarded the 'Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2008' for his latest book, As I Was Dying.

Paolo Pellegrin is one of the founding members of the touring exhibition and installation, Off Broadway, along with Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli and Ilkka Uimonen. He has published six books.

Pellegrin was born in Rome in 1964 and now lives in New York and Rome.

Selected Interviews and Photo Essays:

Paolo Pellegrin: Witness to history
Interview | The Independent | February 16, 2008

Inside the Changing Room
Photo Essay | The New York Times Magazine | February 3, 2008

Gitmo Turns Six: A look at the world's most talked-about prison
Photo Essay | Slate | January 11, 2008

Documentary: From Every Angle
Photo Essay | New York Magazine | November 26, 2007

Gates goes to China
Photo Essay | Fortune | April 2007

Gitmo in black and white
Photo Essay | Slate | March 22, 2007

In the machine
Interview | Magnum Photos | February 8, 2007

The Photohumanist
Interview | VisionAge | Features Archives

Collected Photo Features
Photo Essays | Magnum | 2004-present

Awards:

2008 The 'Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2008' for As I Was Dying
2007 Antonio Russo National Prize for War Reportage
2007 "City of Gijón" International Prize Of Photojournalism
2007 Leica European Publishers Award for Photography
2007 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
2007 World Press Photo 1st Prize General News
2006 World Press Photo 1st Prize Portraits
2006 World Press Photo 3rd Prize Arts and Entertainment
2006 Several citations at the Picture of the Year International Award, USA
2005 World Press Photo 2nd Prize General News
2004 Olivier Rebbot Award Overseas Press Club, USA
2003 Pesaresi Prize
2002 Hansel-Meith Preis
2002 World Press Photo 1st Prize General New Stories
2002 Leica Oscar Barnack Award, Honorable Mention
2001 EuroFuji Award/Italy
2001 Leica Medal of Excellence
2000 World Press Photo 1st Prize People in the News
1999 World Press Photo 3rd Prize Portraits
1997 "City of Gijón" International Prize Of Photojournalism
1996 Kodak Young Photographer Award - Visa d'Or, Perpignan, France
1996 EuroFuji Award/Italy
1995 World Press Photo 1st Prize Daily Life

Grants:

2006 W.E. Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
2000 Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography

Exhibitions:

2007 Double Blind - CVZ Contemporary, New York, USA
2007 Darfur - Holocaust Museum, Berlin, Germany
2007 Broken Landscape - Museo di Roma. Rome, Italy
2006 Traces - Galleria Santa Cecilia, Roma, Italy
2006 Traces of War - Malmö Museer, Malmö, Sweden
2005 The War of Desires - House of Photography, Moscow
2004 Israel and Palestine - Bildens Hus Fotomuseet, Sundsvall, Sweden
2002 Traces of War - Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden

Books:

As I was Dying (Dewi Lewis, 2008)

Double Blind (Trolley, 2007)

Double Blind: War In Lebanon 2006 (Trolley, 2006)

Paolo Pellegrin: Kosovo 1999-2000 (Trolley, 2004)

Days in Kosovo (Trolley, 2002)

L'au delà est là (Le Point du Jour, 2001)

Cambogia ( Federico Motta Editore, 1998)

Bambini (Sinos, 1996)

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