Paolo Pellegrin was born in Rome in 1964. He starts photographing in the 80s and in 1999 he enters Magnum Photos of which he will become a member in 2005. He covers international and public news for some of the main newspapers. In 1995 he wins the World Press Photo (category “Daily Life”) for his reportage on AIDS in Uganda. This is just the first of a long series of awards such as the Kodak Young Photographer Award, the Visa D’Or of Perpignan, the WPP 2000 (category “People in the News”) for his work on Kosovo and the prestigious Hasselblad Grant, among others. In 2002 he won the Hansel-Meith Award and the WPP, category “People in the News”. In 2005 he wins another WPP, category “Portraits-Stories”. He recently published the book As I was dying and participated into Magnum’s collective exhibition Access to life. He published Cambogia with MSF and Kosovo: The Flight of Reason.