Paolo Pellegrin: Event Horizon
Photo monograph
On the occasion of the exhibition by internationally acclaimed Italian photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin at the Venetian exhibition venue Le Stanze della Fotografia, the publishing house Marsilio Arte released the richly illustrated photo monograph Event Horizon / L’orizzonte degli eventi in 2023. Much like our exhibition Anthology, on view at Jakopič Gallery until 2 November 2025, the Venice exhibition also presented Pellegrin’s photographic testimonies of contemporary global conflicts and the consequences of climate change.
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In the presentation of the publication, Le Stanze della Fotografia describes Paolo Pellegrin, born in Rome in 1964, as one of the most important living Italian photographers. From the very beginning of his career, he has stood out for the humanity of his gaze through the lens. This quality makes his photographs unique and enables him to consistently reach emotional and psychological depths through his work. A member of the renowned Magnum Photos agency since 2005, Pellegrin has received numerous prestigious photography awards throughout his career, including eleven World Press Photo awards.
The bilingual English-Italian photo monograph Event Horizon includes more than 300 photographs, together with a previously unpublished report on Ukraine. The book offers insight into Pellegrin’s work between 1995 and 2023, covering both his field assignments – from Gaza and Beirut to Rome, Japan, and the United States – as well as his documentation of climate change in Namibia, Iceland, and Greenland, alongside photographs created during his visits to Ukraine in 2022 and 2023.
The introductory essays for the monograph were written by Denis Curti and Annalisa D’Angelo, curators of the Event Horizon exhibition at Le Stanze della Fotografia.
Pellegrin’s photographs reveal both the fragility and the strength of humanity through its most intimate emotions, set in dialogue with images of nature’s grandeur – all in an attempt to explore one of the defining themes of our time: the relationship between humankind and nature.