PAOLO PELLEGRIN BIOGRAPHY
Paolo Pellegrin

Born and Lives: Rome, Italy, 1964.

Paolo Pellegrin became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005.

Exhibitions:
2008       Witness to History: Paolo Pellegrin, Bonni Benrubi Galelry,
               New York, NY
               Access to Life: Paolo Pellegrin and Magnum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2007       Degrees of Separation- A Portrait Show”; PEER Gallery,
               New York, NY
               Double Blind: Lebanon Conflict 2006; CVZ Contemporary,
               New York, NY
               Apocalypse: Contemporary Visions, Candace Dwan Gallery, NYC
               Broken Landscapes; Museum di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
               Darfur/Darfur;  Musee des Beauxs Arts, Montreal, Canada
               Darfur/Darfur; Boston Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
               Darfur/Darfur; Geaorge Eastman House, Rochester, NY
               Smallest Witnesses. The Crisis in DarfurThrough Children’s Eyes:
               Drawings by Children and Photographs of Darfur; The Jewish
               Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2006       Traces - Galleria Santa Cecilia, Roma, Italy?             
               Traces of War  - Malmö Museer, Malmö, Sweden?
               Katrina: An Unatural Disaster; ; Noorderlicht Photography Gallery,
               Groningen, Netherlands
2005       The War of Desires; Moscow House of Photography,
               Moscow, Russia
               Darfur: An Unnatural Disaster;: Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin; 
               Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Licoln Center, New York, NY
2004       Israel and Palestine - Bildens Hus Fotomuseet, Sundsvall, Sweden
2002       Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden
1997       The Garden of Eden; Noorderlicht festival Groningen, Netherlands

Awards:
2008             Picture of the Year International’s Best use Books for “Double Blind:         War in Lebanon”
                     Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, for international reporting.
                     The 'Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2008' for the book 'As I Was Dying'?
2007             Antonio Russo National Prize for War Reportage?
                     "City of Gijón" International Prize Of Photojournalism?
                     Leica European Publishers Award for Photography?
                     Robert Capa Gold Medal Award?
                     World Press Photo 1st Prize General News.
2006             World Press Photo 1st Prize Portraits.
                     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.
                     World Press Photo 1st Prize General New Stories.
                     Honorable Mention, Leica Oscar Barnack Award.
2001             EuroFuji Award/Italy.
                     Leica Medal of Excellence.
2000             World Press Photo 1st Prize People in the News.
1999             World Press Photo 3rd Prize Portraits.
1999-2006     Several citations at the Picture of the Year International Award,             USA.
1997             Grand Prize Gijon International Photofestival.
1996             Kodak Young Photographer Award – Visa d’Or, Perpignan, France.
                     EuroFuji Award/Italy
1995             World Press Photo 1st Prize daily Life.

Publications:
“The way We Live Now: The Fog of War Crimes” The New York Times Magazine, August 3, 2008
“Dive: Athletes in Excelsis”;  Play Magazine, The New York Times, Sunday August 3rd 2007
“Keeping the Faith: Pope Benedict XVI: The New York Times Magazine, April 8, 2007
“Where Very Large Men Prepare to be Giants”; The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, February 3rd 2008
“The Anti-Secularist: Can Pope Benedict XVI Re-Christianize Europe?”; The New York Times Magazine, April 8, 2007
“But Who’s Against the Nest War?”; The New York Times Magazine, March 25, 2007
“The Battle for Guantanamo”; The New York Times Magazine, September 17, 2006
“Besieged: Lebanon”: The New York Times Magazine, September 3, 2006
“Paolo Pellegrin in Darfur,” photographs by Paolo Pellegrin, text by Scott Anderson; Aperture Magazine, Spring 2006
“Tragedy in Sudan” The New York Times Magazine, October 14, 2004

Monographs:
2007       As I was Dying. European Publishers Award
2007       Double Blind , Trolley Books ?UK
2002        Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason. Trolley, UK
2001        L’au delà est là. Le Point du Jour, France
1998        Cambogia. Federico Motta Editore, Italy
1997        Bambini. Sinnos, Italy


Grants:
2006            W.E. Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
2000            Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography
2001            Euro Fuji Award
2001            Leica Medal of Excellence.?
2000            World Press Photo 1st Prize People in the News.?
1999            World Press Photo 3rd Prize Portraits.
1999-2006   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.

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