Tag: Paolo Pellegrin

  • World Press Hits Pellegrin with Wet Noodle (And Other Contest Scandals)

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    World Press Hits Pellegrin with Wet Noodle (And Other Contest Scandals) | PDNPulse Last week, debate erupted over an image Paolo Pellegrin had entered as part of a portfolio that won prizes at both the World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International competitions. He had apparently cribbed his captions from the New York…

  • Just Make It Happen

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    Just Make It Happen The bottom line, is this photojournalism thing is broken. If you’ve ever seen a horde of Dutch photographers (home of World Press Photo) work a woman’s team of gold medal winning water-polo players, you’d agree. The people that should be working to fix th via Mostly True: http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2013/02/just-make-it-happen.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MostlyTrue+%28Mostly+True%29 Paolo Pellegrin attacked……

  • Paolo Pellegrin’s Sloppy Journalism Ignites Controversy Online

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    Paolo Pellegrin’s Sloppy Journalism Ignites Controversy Online – A Photo Editor Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin suddenly found himself under intense scrutiny in the photo blog world after a picture he took in Rochester, NY that won him 2nd at POYi, 2nd at WPP and 1st as Photographer Of The Year (I’ve omitted the various sub…

  • The Digest – February 24th, 2013

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    Link: The Digest – February 24th, 2013 | LPV Magazine So, enough controversy for you this week? It’s been interesting watching the Pelligrin story evolve over the last couple of days, but as I sit here on Sunday evening I can’t help but think that it’s much ado about nothing

  • BagNews, Paolo Pellegrin and Reading the Pictures

    BagNews, Paolo Pellegrin and Reading the Pictures

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    BagNews, Paolo Pellegrin and Reading the Pictures – Reading The Pictures The other notable effect from yesterday’s critique was the counter-critique that BagNews “failed to contact” Mr. Pellegrin in advance or “give him the chance to reply.” I welcome the chance to clarify a fundamental misperception people make about the role via Reading The Pictures:…

  • Followup: Pellegrin Kerfuffle

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    Followup: Pellegrin Kerfuffle Yesterday, I linked to a BagNews post about the accuracy of an award-winning photo by Magnum’s Paolo Pellegrin. Since then, Paolo has responded (weakly, in my estimation) and a number of sites have leapt to his defense. This morning, BagNews… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/02/followup-pellegrin-kerfuffle.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 Yesterday, I linked to a BagNews post…

  • Photographer and His Subject Are at Odds

    Photographer and His Subject Are at Odds

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    A Prize-Winning Ethics Lesson? The subject of a photo that helped earn Paolo Pellegrin top honors in the Pictures of the Year International contest has raised questions surrounding it. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/a-prize-winning-ethics-lesson/ Mr. Pellegrin was not asked for comment by the post’s authors, however. “I didn’t want to call Paolo,” she said. “I wanted…

  • Paolo Pellegrin and His Subject At Odds Over Photograph

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    Paolo Pellegrin and His Subject At Odds Over Photograph | PDNPulse © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos In response to allegations that he staged a photograph and plagiarized captions for his prize-winning story about the underside of Rochester, New York, Paolo Pellegrin has defended the work in a statement distributed by Mag via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/paolo-pellegrin-and-his-subject-at-odds-over-photograph.html I have…

  • When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo

    When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo

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    When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo – Reading The Pictures What happens when a World Press Photo and Picture of the Year International award-winning photograph wasn’t taken where it was claimed to be taken and when the subject of the photo isn’t who the…

  • Paolo Pellegrin named POYi Freelance Photographer of the Year

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    Paolo Pellegrin named POYi Freelance Photographer of the Year | PDNPulse Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin has been named Freelance Photographer of the Year at the Picture of the Year International competition. Runners up were Tomas Munita, the second place winner, and third place winner Paolo Marchetti. Pellegrin’s portfoli via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/paolo-pellegrin-named-poyi-freelance-photographer-of-the-year.html The so-called UltraPixels can…

  • Around the World with Paolo Pellegrin

    Around the World with Paolo Pellegrin

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    Around the World with Paolo Pellegrin The Magnum photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin has documented many of this generation’s major conflicts and disasters, from wars to revolutions to tsunamis. … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/around-the-world-with-paolo-pellegrin.html#slide_ss_0=1 The Magnum photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin has documented many of this generation’s major conflicts and disasters, from wars to revolutions to tsunamis. “I…

  • A Postcard From Rochester

    A Postcard From Rochester

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    A Postcard From Rochester Last May, five Magnum photographers (Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky and myself) and the writer Ginger Strand, set out from San Antonio, Texas in an RV named Uncle J… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/a-postcard-from-rochester/ Ten Magnum photographers will be working in Rochester. Two of these photographers have already…

  • Jon Stewart slams Time Magazine (and Pellegrin’s cover image)

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    Link: dvafoto The current issue, shown above, the American edition of the magazine has a cover about animal friendships, while the worldwide editions have a cover featuring Italian prime minister Mario Monti

  • Paolo Pellegrin’s Dies Irae

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    photo-eye Book Reviews: Dies Irae Dies Irea , Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin . Published by Contrasto, 2011. Dies Irae Reviewed by Joscelyn Jurich ______________… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/11/photo-eye-book-reviews-dies-irae.html “I happen to think of photography as a foreign language,” says Paolo Pellegrin. “The question isn’t how to take good photos, it’s how to take photographs that succeed to…

  • Postcards From America: Five Photographers, a Writer, Two Weeks and a Bus

    Postcards From America: Five Photographers, a Writer, Two Weeks and a Bus

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/11/postcards-from-america-five-photographers-a-writer-two-weeks-and-a-bus/#1 Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikhael Subotsky, and writer Ginger Strand are a bunch of friends going on a homespun adventure; a two week road trip, from May 11-26, across America. Rather than a super group on…

  • Paolo Pellegrin – Dies Irae

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    Dies Irae is the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of Paolo Pellegrin. The show includes more than 150 images through which he tells us many of his stories and reportages. He has become a symbol of that authentic photojournalism (Magnum) that is not afraid of documenting the world by bravelesly staring at…

  • Storm. Paolo Pellegrin

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    With Storm, Paolo Pellegrin takes a fresh and personal look into fashion. Through an exploration of the Present, he portrays his dreamlike vision of the future, involving in the course of pages a unique collection of landscapes from all over the planet – passing from the most condensed asian metropoles to Iceland, from an unseen…

  • Gaza Strip: the children with nowhere to hide – Telegraph

    Gaza Strip: the children with nowhere to hide – Telegraph

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    Gaza Strip: the children with nowhere to hide Paolo Pellegrin spent two weeks among the children of the Gaza Strip documenting their perilous lives in the shadow of the Israeli border. via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7682213/Gaza-Strip-the-children-with-nowhere-to-hide.html The photographer Paolo Pellegrin spent two weeks among the children of the Gaza Strip documenting their perilous lives in the shadow…

  • Little Water, and Less, Along the Jordan – Lens

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    In his first assignment for National Geographic, the Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin has explored what happens when one of the world’s most critical issues — climate change — is superimposed on one of the world’s most volatile regions. Link: Little Water, and Less, Along the Jordan – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

  • Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia

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    Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia: This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national…