Paolo Pellegrin: Event Horizon
The exhibition “Event Horizon” was showcased at Le Stanze della Fotografia from August 30, 2023, to January 7, 2024. This exhibition revealed the struggles of the modern world and the impacts of climate change through the lens of Paolo Pellegrin, one of Italy’s foremost contemporary photographers. Pellegrin, born in Rome in 1964, had earned acclaim for the humanity embedded in his gaze, a quality that rendered his works exceptional and granted him the liberty to transcend surface impressions.
Featuring over 300 images, including an exclusive report on Ukraine, the exhibition spanned from 1995 to 2023, documenting Pellegrin’s extensive fieldwork. From Gaza to Beirut, Rome to Japan, America to the climate changes in Namibia, Iceland, and Greenland, and concluding with the conflict in Ukraine, these visuals reflected the photographer’s global journey over the past year. They eloquently portrayed the vulnerability and resilience of humanity as it engaged intimately with nature’s grandeur, aiming to unravel a pivotal theme in the contemporary world: the intricate relationship between humanity and its natural environment.
Annalisa D’Angelo and Denis Curti curated the exhibition in collaboration with Magnum Photos.
About the Author
Paolo Pellegrin, born in Rome in 1964, initially pursued studies in architecture at Università La Sapienza before venturing into photography at Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. His affiliation with Agence VU in Paris lasted from 1991 to 2001, after which he became a nominee of Magnum Photos in 2001, achieving full membership in 2005. Notably, Pellegrin served as a contract photographer for Newsweek for a decade.
Accumulating numerous accolades, Pellegrin is the recipient of ten World Press Photo Awards, various POY Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Mieth-Preis, the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was honored with the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
Throughout his three-decade-long career, Pellegrin has focused on issues related to the human condition, covering everything from wars to the impacts of global climate change, aiming to be a witness to contemporary times. Among his notable books are “La Fragile Meraviglia” (edited by Walter Guadagnini, Skira, Italy, 2022), “Des Oiseaux” (Édition Xavier Barral, France, 2021), “Alps – Aosta Valley” (with Pietro Giglio, Forte di Bard, Italy, 2019), “Paolo Pellegrin” (edited by Germano Celant, Silvana Editoriale, Italy, 2018), “Terre Spezzate” (with Scott Anderson, Contrasto, Italy, 2016), “100 Photos of Paolo Pellegrin for Press Freedom” (Reporters without Borders, France, 2013), and more.
Cover picture: Civilians arrive in Tyre after fleeing from their villages in southern Lebanon during the Israeli air raids. Tyre, Lebanon 2006 © Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos
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