Paolo Pellegrin: Double Blind :War in Lebanon 2006
Paolo Pellegrin: Double Blind :War in Lebanon 2006
hardback
Published:
1 March, 2007
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Description
The onslaught in Lebanon during the months of July and August 2006 resulted in not only the deaths of over 600 Lebanese civilians but also an almost complete destruction of the country's infrastructure: schools, roads, hospitals and homes. In total Hezbollah launched 2500 rockets into Israel, resulting in the deaths of 36 Israeli civilians, and the wounding of hundreds more.
Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos) and journalist Scott Anderson were in Lebanon during the conflict, on assignment for The New York Times. Pellegrin's photographs intimately capture the fear and powerlessness of the Lebanese population in the face of the ceaseless Israeli air strikes, revealing the terror and despair of families and friends witnessing the deaths of their loved ones, whilst around them their homes were destroyed. In particular Pellegrin also documented the aftermath of the attack on the village of Qana in southern Lebanon; many of the victims children, his photographs reveal the immense suffering of the civilians involved.
Alongside his work exposing the consequences of indiscriminate attacks on a civilian population is a 3000-word account by Scott Anderson, who accompanied Pellegrin in Lebanon. Pellegrin and Anderson were both wounded in a missile attack by an Israeli drone, which fired on their vehicle as they traveled through the city of Tyre. Along with the civilians of southern Lebanon, they were stranded for weeks under heavy bombing and air strikes by the IDF. The attack at Qana, also the second one to strike the village in living memory, soon after prompted the singer Patti Smith to respond in the form of a song, entitled 'Qana', the words and music of which form her contribution to the book.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781904563570 |
| ISBN10 | 1904563570 |
| Number Of Pages | 144 |
| Item Weight | 820 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Trolley Books |
| Format | hardback |
Author's Bio
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He 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 a full member in 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine for 10 years.
Pellegrin has won many honors, including ten World Press Photo awards, numerous Photographer of the Year awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel–Mieth-Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant.
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). In 2022, at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Pellegrin exhibited an extensive project on climate change, featuring work from around the world.
Paolo Pellegrin lives in Geneva and continues to shoot for news publications and magazines, as well as personal projects.