Paolo Pellegrin

Photographer (Italy)

Paolo Pellegrin was born in Rome, where he initially studied Architecture at the Università La Sapienza before taking up Photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. Between 1991 and 2001, the photographer was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001, he became a Magnum Photos nominee and has been a full member since 2005. He worked as a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years. Pellegrin has won numerous awards, including eleven World Press Photo Awards, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Mieth-Prize, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award and the Leica European Publishers Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography. His photographs, taken over most of the world, have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries and published in many books. In his more than thirty years of work, he has been focused on issues connected to the human condition – from wars to the effects of global climate change –, and, as a human being and photographer, continues to strive to be a witness of our times. Pellegrin currently lives in Geneva.

Portrait: © Paolo Pellegrin