Paolo Pellegrin "Witness to History"
Benrubi Gallery
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Pellegrin, a Magnum photographer with five first place World Press Photo prizes under his belt turned his eye to photography while studying architecture as a young adult in Rome. He has since photographed historical conflicts across the globe from Kosovo to Darfur. Shooting in black and white like his predecessors, Pellegrin chooses this reduced palate to express the timelessness of the events he documents and to convey the universality of the emotional content wrapped up in the turbulence of the moment he has seized. Pellegrin is drawn to extreme situations, they are his canvas, it is where he finds the irony of life: the bittersweet intermingling of chaos and destruction with man's innate desire to live. Despite the magnitude of what he sees, Pellegrin doesn't turn away, he acts as our medium, showing us our darker selves, but at the same time what we can be and the depth of capability of the human soul.
[Image: Paolo Pellegrin "Hindu Kush Range, Afghanistan" Pigment Ink Print, dimensions vary with edition]
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from June 05, 2008 to July 18, 2008