The Italian photographer Paolo Pellegrin has been awarded (in German) the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize from the German Photographic Association (DGPh). The award ceremony took place on October 12 in the Raum für Fotografie Zephyr, Mannheim. The prize is awarded in honor of Dr. Erich Salomon, the great photographer of the Weimar Republic. Since 1971, it is presented each year for "exemplary use of photography in journalism". Leica Camera is proud partner of the award. Alfred Schopf, CEO, awarded Paolo Pellegrin with an engraved Leica M Monochrom. Pellegrin is a member of Magnum and has received numerous awards, including ten World Press Photo Awards.
You may recall that Paolo Pellgrin stirred some controversy when he 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 was deemed to not show what it purports to show by Michael Shaw and co-contributors at BagNewNotes.
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Paolo Pellegrin receives Dr. Erich Salomon Prize 2013 DGPh
The Italian photographer Paolo Pellegrin has been awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography (DGPh). The award ceremony will take place on 12 October 2013 in Mannheim, Zephyr - Space for Photography instead.
Here also Pelle Paolo Grinning latest works are exhibited, the "trip to Germany," a collaboration between the agencies Magnum and Focus in collaboration with the 5th Festival of Photography and the Time Magazine Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg incurred during the project.
Of each year since 1971 for "best use of photography in journalism", the award is reminiscent of Dr. Erich Salomon, the great photographers of the Weimar Republic, the image of modern journalism owes strong suggestions.
With the born in 1964 in Rome Paolo Pellegrin DGPh the honors one of the world's most prolific and most dedicated photojournalists who has devoted some 25 years of photographic documentation of the human condition.
Paolo Pellegrin lives alternately in Rome and New York. From there, he works around the world, restless and high personal commitment to his numerous projects. War and crisis, and the inextricably linked existential moments of life are frequent subjects of Pelle Grins gloomy black-and-white images representing visual highlights of the medium in a time of high-pitched tones. Him to be labeled only as a war photographer, however, would clearly fall short, because the funeral of Pope John Paul, fashion shows and Hollywood's elite, he begins with his distinctive look in. The recently emerged portraits of famous actors are now considered classics of the genre. Always the man at the center of Pelle Grins work, justly known of the great humanist photographer Gilles Peress (Salomon Prize 1995) and Josef Koudelka as his role models.
Paolo Pellegrin first began to study architecture, but switched after three years at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Rome to study photography. During this time he met his mentor, the Italian photographer Enzo Ragazzini know. The late 80s, he began his career with projects in Italy, where he dealt with immigration and homelessness. In 1991, after a well-paid job for the Italian state television, he bought a used car and moved to Paris. There he met Christian Caujolle know. The Pellegrin invited to become a member of the agency he founded VU. What follows is one of the most impressive careers in international photojournalism at all. Roma in Italy and Bosnia, which opens the children in post-war Bosnia and Albania are also subject such as Cambodia, Doctors Without Borders or the AIDS disease in the coming years. For reports on AIDS, he travels among other Mexico, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda. This wins Paolo Pellegrin in 1995 its first World Press Photo Award. The following are reports from all focal image of world events, especially from the former Yugoslavia. The latter he summarizes in the 2002 book "Kosovo" together.
The new millennium begins Pellegrin as a nominee at the famous Magnum agency. His interest now turns to the Middle East and Africa. He accompanied the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the humanitarian disaster in Darfur with the camera. 2005 Paolo Pellegrin full member of Magnum and thus arrived at the "Hall of Fame" of photojournalism. On our laurels, he does not resting. On the contrary, the coming years are still dominated by intensive work. In addition to the destruction caused by the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he photographed and visited the former Guantánamo detainees in U.S. detention center in Afghanistan, Albania, Kuwait and the United Kingdom. Together with Jim Goldberg, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky and Susan Meiselas, Magnum, he realized the project "Postcards from America"and it travels from San Antonio, Texas to Oakland, California. From Egypt and Tunisia, he reports on the Arab Spring. Lately Pellegrin also increasingly devoted his book publications, appeared in 2012, the comprehensive retrospective Paolo Pellegrin.
Numerous awards, including ten World Press Photo Awards, the high recognition Paolo Pelle Grins impressively document. His images have been published and are in almost all leading publications in the world. Solely from the long-standing cooperation with "The New York Times Magazine" result more than ten cover stories in the prestigious magazine. German readers Paolo Pellegrin is particularly known for his work for the "Time Magazine".