CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION

@ Chautauqua July 27, 2010 / Amphitheater / 10:45 a.m.

Award-winning photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin has spent much of the past two decades documenting conflicts in Darfur, Sudan, Bosnia and Afghanistan in photographs. “I think there’s a sense of wanting to document and create a visual record of our history, or at least parts of it,” Pellegrin said in his 2008 profile for Canon Europe’s Ambassadors Programme. “I’m mainly interested in the social, humanistic side of photography and for me it’s also a general approach to life.”

A Magnum Photos nominee in 2001, Pellegrin became a full member of the photographic cooperative in 2005. He is also a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous Photographer of the Year Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. He was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 2006 and Getty Image Professional Editorial Photography Grant in 2009.

Pellegrin is one of the founding members of the touring exhibition and installation “Off Broadway,” along with Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli and Ilkka Uimonen. He has published six books, one of which — As I was Dying — won the 2008 Deutsche Fotobuchpreis.