Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L’Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy, before studying photography at L’istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Rome. Between 1991 and 2001, Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001 he became a Magnum Photos nominee and a full member in 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years. Pellegrin is a winner of many awards, including eleven World Press Photo awards, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant for Photography, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, and the Leica European Publishers Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His books include La Fragile Meraviglia (Skira, Italy, 2022); Des Oiseaux (Éditions Xavier Barral, France, 2021); Alps – Aosta Valley (Forte di Bard editore, Italy, 2019); Paolo Pellegrin, curated by Germano Celant (Silvana Editoriale, Italy, 2018), Terre Spezzate (Contrasto, Italy, 2016); 100 Photos of Paolo Pellegrin for Press Freedom (Reporters Sans Frontières, France, 2013); Paolo Pellegrin (Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern, Germany, 2012); Dies Irae (Contrasto, Italy, 2011); Photo Poche (Actes Sud, France, 2010); As I Was Dying (Actes Sud, France, 2007); Double Blind (Trolley, UK, 2007); Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason (Trolley, UK, 2002); L’au-delà est là (Le Point du Jour, France, 2001); Cambogia (Federico Motta Editore, Italy, 1998), Bambini (Sinnos, Italy, 1997).