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Paolo Pellegrin

Photographs (from top to bottom):
Refugee in a camp, at the beginning of a rainstorm in the Kass region. Sudan, 2004
© Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos, 2004
Forced from their homes, children study the Koran in a makeshift school set up at the Zalingei camp for internally displaced people. Darfur, Sudan
© Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos, 2004

Paolo Pellegrin was born in Rome in 1964. He became a Magnum member in 2005 and has been a Newsweek contract photographer since 2000.

In 1995, his reportage on AIDS in Uganda won him the first prize at World Press Photo in the "Daily Life" category. In 1996, he won the Kodak Young Photographer Award-Visa D'Or in Perpignan for his images on AIDS in Uganda and he was selected to be a part of the World Press Photo Master Class. The same year he was awarded the EuroFuji Award/Italy.

The book Children, containing images of children in Uganda, Romania, and Bosnia, came out in 1997. That same year, he received first prize at the International Photofestival in Gijon for his work on children in Bosnia. His book Cambodia was published in November 1998. This book was the result of Pellegrin's collaboration with MSF (Médicines Sans Frontières) in Italy. In 1999, he was awarded third prize in the category "Portraits" at World Press Photo. In 2000, he won first prize at World Press Photo in the "People in the News" category for his work on Kosovo, received an Honorable Mention in the Hansel-Mieth Award for a story on Albania, and was the recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Grant. In 2001, he was awarded both the EuroFuji Award/Italy and the Leica Medal of Excellence.

In 2002, Pellegrin won the Hansel-Meith Award for a story on a Bosnian village and won first prize in the World Press Photo in the "People in the News" category for his work in Algeria as well as an Honorable Mention for the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In the same year, his book Kosovo: The Flight of Reason was published. Pellegrin also served as a jury member for World Press Photo. In 2003, he was awarded the Borsa di Studio Marco Pesaresi in Italy. He also received the Overseas Press Club Olivier Rebbot award in 2004 and World Press Photo "Stories" second prize for Arafat's funeral.

In 2005 Pellegrin won first prize in the World Press Photo "Portrait Stories" category with his work from the funeral of Pope Jean Paul II and he won third prize in the Arts and Entertainments section with images from the New York Fashion Week. He is one of the authors of Off Broadway.

In 2004, Pellegrin took the fotos in Darfur.

For more information, see Paolo Pellegrin's page on Magnum:
www.magnumphotos.com

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