Paolo Pellegrin
Italian, b. 1964
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L'Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy. After three years, he decided to change career directions and left to study photography.
He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine.
Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including nine 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. He lives in New York and Rome.
His books include Paolo Pellegrin (Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern 2012), Dies Irae (Contrasto, Italy, 2011); Paolo Pellegrin (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)
Awards
2008 The Lucie International Photography Awards 2008 Book award for "As I Was Dying"
2008 Picture of the Year International's Best Use Books for "Double Blind: War in
Lebanon"
2007 The 'Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2008' for the book '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
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
2006 Several citations at the Picture of the Year International Award, USA
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
2009 Getty Image Professional Editorial Photography Grant
2006 W.E. Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
2000 Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography
Main Solo Exhibitions
2011 Paolo Pellegrin Retrospective. Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich, Germany
2011 Paolo Pellegrin. Spazio Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
2011 As I Was Dying. Palacij Ljublijankega Gradu, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Paolo Pellegrin. Galerie de l'Instant, Paris, France
2010 Retrospective. Galerie Fait et Cause, Paris, France
2009 Black Mountains. Reportage Atri Festival, Italy
2008 As I Was Dying. Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth, Australia
2008 Iraqi Diaspora. Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France
2008 Paolo Pellegrin. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, USA
2008 As I was Dying. Zephyr Weltkulturen Museum, Mannheim, Germany
2008 As I was Dying. Magnum Gallery. Paris, France
2008 As I was Dying. Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
2008 Ner Avorio. Casa della Confraternita, Udine, Italy
2008 As I was Dying. Leica Galerie, Solms, Germany
2008 Double Blind. Fovea exhibitions. New York, USA
2007 Double Blind. CVZ Contemporary, New York, USA
2007 Darfur. Holocaust Museum, Berlin, Germany
2007 Broken Landscape. Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Italy
2006 Traces. Galleria Santa Cecilia. Rome, Italy
2006 Traces of War. Malmo Museer, Sweden
2005 The War of Desires. House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2004 Israel and Palestine. Bildens Hus Fotomuseet, Sundsvall, Sweden
2002 Traces of War. Mercati di Traiano, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2002 Traces of War. Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
2001 Paolo Pellegrin. Leica Gallery, New York City, USA
2001 Kosovo 1999-2000. Parson School of Design, New York City, USA
2000 Kukes. War in Kosovo, Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Cambodia. Convento S Chiara Napoli, Italy
1999 Bosnia. The Heritage of War. Chiesa di Santa Monaca, Firenze, Italy
1999 Cambodia. Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France
1998 Cambodia. Galleria Sozzani, Milano, Italy
1997 Bosnia. Palazzo Renzo, Bologna, Italy
1997 AIDS in Uganda. EFTI, Centro de Imagen, Madrid, Spain
1997 Emergency. Galleria Grazia Neri, Milano, Italy
1996 AIDS in Uganda. Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France
1993 The Homeless. Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France
Main Group Exhibitions
2010 Disquieting Images. Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2010 Magnum. Shifting Media. New Role of Photography. C/O Berlin, Germany
2010 Haiti Earthquake. Reportage Atri Festival, Atri, Italy
2009 Georgian Spring. Magnum Photos traveling exhibition: Uferallen, Berlin, Germany; Teatro Circo Price, Madrid, Spain; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2008 Access to Life. Cororan Museum, Washington D.C., USA
2008 Disposable People. Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2007 Darfur/Darfur. George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, USA
2007 FotoGrafia. Festival Internazianle di Roma. Italy
2007 Berlin 1946 - 2006. Camera Work AG, Berlin, Germany
2007 Vor den Augen der Welt. Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
2007 Degrees of separation. Michael Mazzeo Gallery. New York City, USA
2007 Indianscope. Maison de la Photographie. Lille, France
2007 Euro Visions. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Off Broadway. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2006 Katrina - An Unnatural Disaster. Noorderlich Gallery. Groningen, Holland
2004 11th Noorderlich Photofestival 2004. Stichting Fotografie Noorderlich. Groningen, Holland
2003 Confronting Views: Nine Photographers on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
2003 Exhibitions at Dokument 03. Bildens Hus. Fotomuseet. Sundsvall, Sweden
Books
2010 Paolo Pellegrin, Actes Sud, PHOTO POCHE France
2010 Fashion Magazine: STORM, Magnum Photos, France
2007 As I was Dying, Actes Sud, France
2007 Double Blind, Trolley
2002 Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason, Trolley, USA
2001 L'au delà est là, Le Point du Jour, France
1998 Cambogia, Federico Motta Editore, Italy
1997 Bambini, Sinnos, Italy