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  • 2003 -Quotidiano al femminile, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
  • 2003 - Confronting Views: Nine Photographers on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The Photographers' Gallery, London
  • 2003 - Confronto di sguardi / Confronting views. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Contemporaneo Temporaneo, Rome, Italy
  • 2003 - Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria
  • 2003 - Exhibitions at Dokument 03. Bildens Hus, fotomuseet, Sundsvall, Sweden
  • 2004 - Off Broadway, 60 Mercer Street, New York City
  • 2004 - 11th Noorderlicht Photofestival 2004, Noorderlicht, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2004 - L'Ulivo - dono del Mediterraneo Galleria Grazia Neri, Milan, Italy
  • 2004 - Magnum Stories, The Guardian Newsroom, London
  • 2004 - Un mondo possibile – Le vie dello sviluppo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  • 2005 - Off Broadway, Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin, Germany
  • 2006 - Katrina - An Unnatural Disaster, Noorderlicht, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2006 - Off Broadway, sei giovani fotografi di Magnum, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  • 2006 - The Sexy Mediterranean, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2007 - Euro Visions, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
  • 2007 - Indianscope, Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France
  • 2007 - Degrees of Separation, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York City
  • 2007 - Vor den Augen der Welt, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
  • 2007 - Berlin 1946 - 2006, Camera Work AG, Berlin
  • 2007 - Altri mondi - FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome
  • 2007 - Turkey by Magnum, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2007 - Darfur/Darfur, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
  • 2007 - Paesaggio Prossimo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
  • 2007 - Apocalypse: Contemporary Visions, Candace Dwan Gallery, NY
  • 2008 - Disposable People, Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2008 - Access to Life, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • 2008 - MAGNUM Photos 60 years, Stedelijk Museum Post CS, Amsterdam
  • 2009 - Tel Aviv Durch die Linse von Magnum Fotografen, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009 - Georgian Spring, Magnum Photos traveling exhibition: Uferallen, Berlin Germany; Teatro Circo Price, Madrid, Spain; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
  • 2009 - Droit dans les yeux, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
  • 2010 - demain/hier - tomorrow/yesterday, Magnum Gallery, Paris
  • 2010 - Haiti Earthquake, Reportage Atri Festival, Atri, Italy
  • 2010 - Magnum. Shifting Media. New Role of Photography, C/O Berlin, Berlin
  • 2010 - Disquieting Images, Triennale, Milan, Italy
  • 2011 - L'ombre de la guerre, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris
  • 2011 - Ombre di guerra, Ara Pacis, Rome, IT
  • 2012 - Photojournalistes N.4, Galerie de l'Instant, Paris
  • 2012 - The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • 2012 - Photography in Mexico, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  • 2012 - Delpire &Co, The gallery at Hermes, NY
  • 2012 - Time in Turkey, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2013 - Deutschlandreise, ZEPHYR - Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
  • 2013 - Photojournalistes N.5, Galerie de l'Instant, Paris
  • 2013 - 25 Masters of Photography: Pictures of Turkey, art place berlin, Berlin
  • 2013 - Visual Leader 2013, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2013 - Wunden der Welt, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück, Germany
  • 2013 - Deutschlandreise, 5. Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
  • 2013 - Grenzgänge. - Magnum: Trans-Territories Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie Mannheim, Germany
  • 2013 - Passaggi, Galleria del Cembalo, Rome
  • 2014 - Deutschlandreise. Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Eschborn, Germany
  • 2014 - The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Aperture Foundation Gallery, NY
  • 2014 - Magnum Contact Sheets, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest
  • 2014 - Postcards from America: Milwaukee, eleven Magnum photographers, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
  • 2014 - Congo, Atelier Richelieu, Paris, 2014; Magasin Électrique, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2015.
  • 2015 - A occhi aperti - (With Open Eyes), Reggia di Venaria, Turin, Italy
  • 2015 - A occhi aperti, AuditoriumExpo – Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, Rome
  • 2015 - Terres dévastées, Festival Photo Peuples et Nature de La Gacilly, La Gacilly, Morbihan, France
  • 2015 - Speak Truth to Power, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
  • 2015 - Magnum - Contact Sheets, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
  • 2015 - Merry Christmas!, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2016 - FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome
  • 2016 - The Rome Commission 2003-201, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London
  • 2016 - 11th European Photography - Reggio Emilia, European Photography - Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 2016 - 7th BredaPhoto International Photo Festival, Breda Photo, Breda, Netherlands
  • 2016 - Desperate Crossing, Istituto Italiano di Cultura] New York.
  • 2016 - Extraordinary Visions. L'Italia ci guarda, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
  • 2016 - Fields of War, Massimo De Carlo, London
  • 2017 - L'Italia di Magnum Da Henri Cartier-Bresson a Paolo Pellegrin, March–May, Camera, Torino, Italy

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Pellegrin studied architecture at L'Università la Sapienza, in Rome, and after three years he decided to change career directions and left to study photography at Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Rome, from 1986 to 1987. During these years, he met the Italian photographer Enzo Ragazzini, who became his mentor.

1987-1990: Pellegrin began working on his first photography projects in Italy, concentrating on immigration, the circus and homelessness. At this time he also worked as an assistant for a number of photographers and videographers.

1991: After completing a well-paid assignment for the Italian state TV channel, he bought a second-hand car, filled it with his prints and negatives, and moved to Paris. Here he met Christian Caujolle, who invited him to join Agence Vu, which represented him for nine years.

1992: Pellegrin began working on personal projects dealing with themes such as the Romani people in Italy and Bosnia, and made several trips to the Balkans after Albania opened its borders. Through Christian Caujolle, he met Grazia Neri, who represented him in Italy.

1994-1995: He started working on a project about children in post-war Bosnia and travelled throughout Italy, Romania, Mexico, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya for a project on HIV/AIDS.

1995: Pellegrin won his first World Press Photo award for his work on AIDS in Uganda.[3]

1996: He was awarded the Kodak Young Photographer Award / Visa d'Or at Visa Pour l’Image photography festival for his reportage on AIDS in Uganda and participated in the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass.

1997: He published his first book, Bambini, on his work about children in Bosnia, Uganda and Romania and was awarded the City of Gijòn International Prize of Photojournalism for his work on children in post-war Bosnia.

1998: He worked on a project for Médecins Sans Frontières, which became a book - Cambodia - and traveling exhibition. This work, too, was awarded a World Press Photo award.[3] In the same year, he was given his first assignment by Kathy Ryan at the New York Times Magazine to work on blood feuds in Albania with reporter Scott Anderson. This assignment with Anderson marked the beginning of a long-term collaboration that has since resulted in over ten cover-stories for the magazine.

1999-2000: Pellegrin travelled frequently between Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, and Serbia during the war, creating an in-depth reportage on the conflict and its aftermath. He won a World Press Photo for his coverage of the conflict in Kosovo.[3]

2000: He was offered a contract position at Newsweek magazine by Director of Photography Sarah Harbutt and was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography for his work in the Balkans. He also published the booklet L'au-delà est là with his work on children in post-war Bosnia.

2001: Pellegrin became a Magnum Photos nominee and won a World Press Photo award for his work on anti-terrorism in Algeria.[3] During the same year, he won the Leica Medal of Excellence for his work in the Balkans. He also traveled extensively during this year, mainly covering news events in Africa and the Middle East.

2002: He published the book Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason and won the German Hansel-Mieth prize for a story in Bosnia.

2003: He travelled to cover the US-led invasion of Iraq.

2004: Pellegrin regularly visited Darfur and won the Olivier Rebbot prize of the Overseas Press Club, USA, for his coverage of the humanitarian crisis there. He also won a World Press Photo award for his reportage on Yasser Arafat’s funeral.[3] Together with Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli and Ilkka Uimonen, he created Off Broadway, a traveling multi-media project.

2005: Pellegrin became a full member of Magnum Photos. In the same year, he covered the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami and hurricane Katrina and won two World Press Photo awards, one for his work on the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and another for a reportage backstage at NYC fashion shows.

2005-2006: He worked on a project about the Guantánamo Bay detention center and its former detainees in Afghanistan, Albania, Kuwait, and the U.K.

2006: He covered the war in Lebanon, where he was injured in Tyre. He won a World Press Photo award for his work in Lebanon[3] and the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his long-term project on Islam.

2007: He was awarded the Robert Capa Gold medal by the Overseas Press Club for his work on the war in Lebanon and won the Leica European Publishers Award for Photography, as the result of which his book As I Was Dying was published in seven languages. 2007 was also the year of Double Blind, a book featuring his work on the war in Lebanon, with a text by Scott Anderson. He also won the City of Gijon International Prize of Photojournalism, once again for his work on Lebanon.

2008: He travelled to Syria and Jordan for a story about the Iraqi Diaspora and won the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2008 for the book As I was Dying and The Lucie International Photography Awards 2008 Book award. He also worked on the New York Times Magazine’s annual Oscar’s Portfolio.

2009: Pellegrin was awarded a Getty Image Professional Editorial Photography Grant for his work on the Iraqi Diaspora in the Middle East, and a STERN Spezial Portfolio was published with a monograph of his work.

2010: He published the 5th annual Magnum Photos Fashion Magazine, STORM and the 130th number of the Photo Poche collection.

2011: He published the book Dies Irae and travelled to Egypt and Tunisia to cover the Arab Spring revolutions. On assignment for Zeit Magazine, he photographed destruction of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. He also went on a road trip from San Antonio to Oakland for the Magnum project “Postcards from America” with Jim Goldberg, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky and Susan Meiselas.

2012: He published the book Paolo Pellegrin (Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern) and won a World Press Photo Award for his reportage on the aftermath of the Japanese tsunami.[3] On assignment for Zeit Magazine, he went to Guantánamo once again, to document conditions in the U.S. naval base and detention center under the Obama administration. He worked in Rochester and Miami for the Magnum project “Postcards from America,” and made a second trip to Rochester on assignment for Zeit magazine.

2013: He won his tenth World Press Photo Award for his reportage about Rochester, New York,[3] Photographer of the Year in the 70th annual Pictures of the Year International competition and the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize 2013.

2014: Pellegrin's photos of the band U2 were used in the digital booklet accompanying U2's album Songs of Innocence.

2015: After two years of work in Africa, Pellegrin published the book Congo in collaboration with fellow Magnum photographer Alex Majoli and accompanied by a text from the Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou. The project was also exhibited in Arles at the MAGASIN ÉLECTRIQUE. During the summer, he boarded an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) ship, the Bourbon Argos, to cover the journey made by migrants’s traveling from Africa to Europe. He also received the Rome Commission from FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma, using this to begin a long-term project on the extended family of matriarch Sevla, a Romani of Bosnian origin living in Rome.

2016: Pellegrin won the WPP, Digital Storytelling Contest - Immersive Storytelling, 1st prize - with Desperate Crossing, a reportage produced in collaboration with Scott Anderson and commissioned by Kathy Ryan of The New York Times Magazine about migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. In the same year, again working with Scott Anderson and for Kathy Ryan / The New York Times Magazine, he documented the battle for the liberation of Mosul, Iraq. After over two decades of extensive exploration of the Middle East, Pellegrin’s images, along with 42,000 words by Anderson were published in a dedicated issue of the New York Times Magazine: Fractured Lands.

2017: He visited Nigeria to photograph victims of Boko Haram. The same year, after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he followed the protests in Ramallah. He also documented NASA’s IceBridge project, traveling to Antarctica to document the effects of climate change, an issue he’s focused on considerably over the last few years.

2018: While still working on his long-term projects, Pellegrin began to focus on his solo exhibition at MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Un’antologia, curated by art historian Germano Celant, from Nov 7th, 2018, to March 10th, 2019. The exhibition was accompanied by the book Paolo Pellegrin, published by Silvana Editoriale.

2019: commissioned by Forte di Bard, as part of the exhibition Mountains by Magnum Photographers, he worked in the Alps, publishing a folio with a text by Pietro Giglio. He also went to Kyoto for the MagnumLab project. -Lopifalko (talk) 11:47, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]