Update #3: Paulo Pellegrin

Paulo Pellegrin is an Italian photographer, born in Rome in 1964. He studied photography in Rome and has since won many awards for his work, including ten World Press Photo awards 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.

I feel as though Paulo creates photostories on events in the world in order to create more of a visual description of events other than it being shown on the news and in newspapers etc. For example, one I paid particular interest to is his photo essay on Palestine. I feel like the use of black and white effect on the photographs make them emotional and give a much stronger feeling towards the images than if they were in colour. I feel like the images were taken in order to provide a sense of emotion and pain to the audience, in order for them to get more of an understanding about the war in Palestine.

Paulo has overall created several important photostories focusing on homelessness, immigration, war and more personal projects such as the Romani people in Bosnia and Italy.