Artist talk with the Magnum Photos photographer Paolo Pellegrin
The official opening is scheduled for 6 p.m. with an address by H. E. Giuseppe Cavagna, Ambassador of Italy to the Republic of Slovenia.
Before the opening of the exhibition Paolo Pellegrin: An Anthology, on Tuesday, 24 June 2025, at 5 p.m. we would like to invite you to the Jakopič Gallery for an artist talk with the photographer Paolo Pellegrin. Dr. Marija Skočir, curator of the exhibition for the Jakopič Gallery, will talk to the photographer. The conversation will be held in English. Join us to listen to one of the leading visual chroniclers of our time!
Paolo Pellegrin (b. 1964, Rome), studied architecture at the Università la Sapienza, and later photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and is a full member of this internationally renowned photographic agencie since 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine for 10 years and his photographs have been published in many others renowned newspapers and magazines, such as TIME Magazine and The New York Times.
Pellegrin has won many honors, including eleven World Press Photo awards, the Hansel-Meith Preis, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel–Mieth-Preis, the Robert Capa Gold Medal and the Leica European Publishers Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and this year he's among the honorees of the Lucie's Awards for his achievements in photojournalism.
His photographs have been exposed in numerous museums and galleries among which: Maison Européenne de La Photographie in Paris, as part of the festival Rencontres d’Arles, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the museum MAXXI in Rome and also at the Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, the museum Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Reggia di Venaria Reale palace and the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, at the Wolfsburg Museum and at the gallery Stanze della Fotografia in Venice.
He has produced a number of books, including Kosovo, 1999–2000: The Flight of Reason (2002), As I Was Dying (2007), Double Blind (2007), Dies Irae (2011), Heart of Darkness (2015), and the colossal collaboration with fellow Magnum photographer Alex Majoli, Congo (2015). Among the most recent is the comprehensive monograph Event Horizon, published by Marsilio Arte on the occasion of Pellegrin's exhibition of the same name in Venice last year. The book will be on sale in our gallery during the An Anthology exhibition.
Pellegrin currently lives in Switzerland and, as a member of Magnum Photos, continues to photograph for many publications and magazines, while at the same time he's working on his original projects, increasingly focusing on nature conservation and wider social issues.