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Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime | The New Yorker
Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the SublimeFor 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, Anthony parked in […]
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I’m Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I’m Documenting My Family. – The New York Times
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 I realized that this pandemic was not being contained. It was spreading everywhere. My family was back in Switzerland, and I was playing these scenarios through my mind: Borders being closed. What if […]
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 15 June 2018 – Photojournalism Now
[contentcards url=”https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-15-june-2018/”] Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 15 June 2018 – Photojournalism Now When I was commissioned to interview Paolo Pellegrin back in 2008 it was a turning point in my career. I remember placing a call to Pellegrin who was in Jordan, at 5am my time. When he learned how early it was […]
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Documenting the Anguish of War: An Interview With Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin – Pacific Standard
[contentcards url=”https://psmag.com/magazine/interview-with-photojournalist-paolo-pellegrin”] Documenting the Anguish of War: An Interview With Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin – Pacific Standard 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.
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Italy by Magnum , from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Paolo Pellegrin – The Eye of Photography
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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Magnum Photos Blog
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
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart – The New York Times
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Accompanying Anderson’s text are 10 portfolios by the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, drawn from his extensive travels across the region […]
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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 Not long after Jake Silverstein was named editor of The New York Times Magazine in 2014, he had a dinnertime conversation with writer Scott Anderson and photographer Paolo Pellegrin, two longtime contributors to the magazine. The subject? “A big, epic project,” timed to the […]
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Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists – Feature Shoot
Extraordinary New Book Unveils the Untold Stories of the World’s Greatest Photojournalists As suggested by Italian journalist Mario Calabresi in his extraordinary book Eyes Wide Open, however, the best storytellers are those who allow themselves to be submerged within often painful events, to forgo absolute objectivity in favor of something rarer: a precarious marriage of […]
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Magnum Photos Blog
Refugees on Lesbos, Greece by Paolo Pellegrin
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Magnum Photos Blog
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.
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Worth a look: Desperate Crossing by Paolo Pellegrin | dvafoto
Desperate Crossing PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO BY PAOLO PELLEGRIN. TEXT BY SCOTT ANDERSON. via dvafoto
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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. Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo has not been widely documented. Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin provide plenty of visual records in their book, Congo, which Aperture published in May, […]
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Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture – The Eye of Photography
Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture 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 […]
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Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” – The New Yorker
Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new book “Congo” (Aperture, 2015), by the photographers Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin: pictures of immense panoramic scope and texture, pictures of deep, elaborate landscapes and of the human dramas that play out across them, scenes […]
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Life in the Valley of Death – NYTimes.com
Life in the Valley of Death 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
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The Pictures of the Year International Contest Concludes
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.
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POYi Punts on Pellegrin Controversy
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » POYi Punts on Pellegrin Controversy they dodged the issue that is central to the debate: the legitimacy of one particular documentary-like image of a subject posing with a gun in a parking garage–at Pellegrin’s request. (The subject told PDN that the image “put him in a bad light.”)
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POYi Issues Statement On Paolo Pellegrin’s Pictures, Affirm Award
Link: POYi Issues Statement On Paolo Pellegrin’s Pictures, Affirm Award | NPPA Today a statement from POYi says, “The spirit of Pictures of the Year International is to honor photojournalists and celebrate their outstanding documentary photography. We do not probe for reasons to disqualify work.”
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World Press Hits Pellegrin with Wet Noodle (And Other Contest Scandals)
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » World Press Hits Pellegrin with Wet Noodle (And Other Contest Scandals) Today, World Press photo organizers issued a statement that said, “The jury is of the opinion that although a more complete and accurate introduction and captions should have been made available by the photographer, the jury was […]