Tag: Paolo Pellegrin

  • Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime | The New Yorker

    Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime | The New Yorker

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    Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime For as long as the celebrated photojournalist has been doing his best work, he has been grappling with the threat of blindness. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/paolo-pellegrins-photographic-quest-for-the-sublime “To find silence, you need silence,” Pellegrin had observed, and as we drove in darkness no one spoke. An hour later,…

  • I’m Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I’m Documenting My Family. – The New York Times

    I’m Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I’m Documenting My Family. – The New York Times

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    I’m Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I’m Documenting My Family. For the first time in my career I decided not to cover a major event. I’m seeing something more timeless and universal. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/16/magazine/covid-quarantine-family.html I was in Australia, working on a photographic project on the aftermath of the wildfires, and there was a moment when…

  • Iranian Memoir | Magnum In Motion

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    Link: In this essay by Paolo Pellegrin, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran and imagine how their life would have been if they had never left their country.

  • Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to great…

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    Link: Editions lamaindonne presents the work of Ljubiša Danilovic in this book entitled Le Desert Russe (The Russian Desert). As the author explains, “By 2050, Russia will have lost a third of its current population. The largest country in the world will then have just a hundred million  citizens.

  • Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists – Feature Shoot

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    Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists The duty of a photojournalist, according to many, is to remain detached in a moment of crisis, to compartmentalize scenes of violence and war from the goings on of everyday life. As suggested by Italian journalist Mario Calabresi in his extraordinary book Eyes…

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 15 June 2018 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 15 June 2018 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 15 June 2018 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Paul Blackmore’s exhibition opens next week in Melbourne, plus Paolo Pellegrin’s (Magnum) new work on Europe’s largest pr… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-15-june-2018/ When I was commissioned to interview Paolo Pellegrin back in 2008 it was a turning…

  • Documenting the Anguish of War: An Interview With Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin – Pacific Standard

    Documenting the Anguish of War: An Interview With Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin – Pacific Standard

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    Documenting the Anguish of War: An Interview With Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin After more than two peripatetic decades of assignments in the Balkans, Lebanon, Palestine, and Afghanistan, among many other places of conflict, photographer Paolo Pellegrin is still out there. via Pacific Standard: https://psmag.com/magazine/interview-with-photojournalist-paolo-pellegrin After more than two peripatetic decades of assignments in the Balkans, Lebanon,…

  • Italy by Magnum , from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Paolo Pellegrin – The Eye of Photography

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    Italy by Magnum , from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Paolo Pellegrin For L’Italia di Magnum. Da Henri Cartier-Bresson a Paolo Pellegrin, an exhibition currently on view at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, in Torino, twenty photographers have been called upon to recount events, great and small, through Italian figures and localities from the post-war…

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    The Battle For Mosul by Paolo Pellegrin On assignment for the New York Times Magazine, Paolo Pellegrin photographed the ongoing battle as well as the situation of the internally displaced people

  • Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart – The New York Times

    Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart – The New York Times

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    Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart The story of more than a decade of war, terror and revolution in the Middle East, seen through the eyes of six people whose lives were changed forever. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes…

  • The latest New York Times Magazine is a 40,000-word, grant-funded book – Poynter

    The latest New York Times Magazine is a 40,000-word, grant-funded book – Poynter

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    The latest New York Times Magazine is a 40,000-word, grant-funded book – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/the-latest-new-york-times-magazine-is-a-40000-word-grant-funded-book/426028/ Not long after Jake Silverstein was named editor of The New York Times Magazine…

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    Desperate Crossings In late July 2015 Paolo Pellegrin boarded an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) ship tasked with intercepting migrant-packed vessels originating from Libya, bound for Europe.

  • Worth a look: Desperate Crossing by Paolo Pellegrin | dvafoto

    Worth a look: Desperate Crossing by Paolo Pellegrin | dvafoto

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    Desperate Crossing For 733 migrants crammed aboard two tiny boats somewhere between Libya and Italy, a leaky hull was neither the beginning nor the end of their troubles. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/03/magazine/migrants.html?_r=0 PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO BY PAOLO PELLEGRIN. TEXT BY SCOTT ANDERSON.

  • Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin photograph the Republic of the Congo in their book, Congo.

    Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin photograph the Republic of the Congo in their book, Congo.

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    These Untitled Photos of the Republic of Congo Leave Viewers to Find Their Own Interpretations Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo has not been widely documented. Alex Majoli… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/16/alex_majoli_and_paolo_pellegrin_photograph_the_republic_of_the_congo_in.html Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the…

  • Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” – The New Yorker

    Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” – The New Yorker

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    Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new book by the photographers Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin, and yet you never know exactly what you’re looking at. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/nothing-but-pictures-alex-majoli-and-paolo-pellegrins-congo There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new…

  • Life in the Valley of Death – NYTimes.com

    Life in the Valley of Death – NYTimes.com

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    Life in the Valley of Death In Srebrenica, the remains of those killed in the genocide keep turning up, unsettling the reconciliation between Muslims and Serbs. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/29/magazine/srebrenica-life-in-the-valley-of-death.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Srebrenica has come to symbolize the Bosnian war’s unspeakable brutality and the international community’s colossal failure when confronting it. Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN

  • The Pictures of the Year International Contest Concludes

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    Link: The Pictures of the Year International Contest Concludes – NYTimes.com Top honors in the 70th annual Pictures of the Year International contest went to Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum Photos for freelance photographer of the year and Paul Hansen of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter for newspaper photographer of the year.

  • POYi Punts on Pellegrin Controversy

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    POYi Punts on Pellegrin Controversy | PDNPulse Pictures of the Year International organizers have finally weighed in on the controversy surrounding Paolo Pellegrin’s prize-winning contest entry. And they dodged the issue that is central to the debate: the legitimacy of one particular documentary-like via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/poyi-punts-on-pellegrin-controversy.html they dodged the issue that is central to the…

  • POYi Issues Statement On Paolo Pellegrin’s Pictures, Affirm Award

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    POYi Issues Statement On Paolo Pellegrin’s Pictures, Affirm Award The Pictures of the Year International director has issued a statement today addressing the Paolo Pellegrin photography and caption controversy, waiting until last night to issue their findings after POYi finished announcing all of their category winners via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/39467 Today a statement from POYi says,…