Paolo Pellegrin

In 1992 Pellegrin began working on personal projects, on subjects such as the Romani people in Italy and Bosnia and made several trips to the Balkans after Albania opened its borders.

[3] Between 1999 and 2000 Pellegrin travelled frequently between Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, and Serbia during the war, creating an in-depth reportage on the conflict and its aftermath.

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

[2] In the same year he covered the aftermath of the 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 the reportage on the backstage of fashion shows in New York City.

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.