Curated by Denis Curti and Annalisa D’Angelo in collaboration with Magnum Photos, exhibition Paolo Pellegrin. Event Horizon offers a vibrant testimony to the photojournalist from Rome, born in 1964. The exhibition is a visual journey via over 300 photos taken between 1995 and 2023. The journey explores conflict in the Middle East, from Gaza to Beirut, and documents the devastation and misery left in the wake of war. It then moves to Japan and his hometown Rome, and finally to the United States, where Pellegrin captured discrimination, disparities, and violence. Following a vertical route starting just below the Equator, from Namibia to Greenland, passing through Iceland, the photographer reveals the changes that our planet is forced to undergo due to climate change. The exhibition also includes
a new and highly relevant reportage on the conflicts in Ukraine and the brutality that erodes the environment and people during a war.
Pellegrin’s predominant use of black and white photography “peels away a layer of reality,” aiming for detail and using light to emphasize shapes, their curves, but also their fragility and despair. He believes in a photography capable of docu- menting memories in their tragedy and authen- ticity, so that memories serve as a reminder and a means to understand reality.
Featured Image: © Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum Photos, 2006
