Athens Photo World: Paolo Pellegrin’s Exhibition - “As I was dying

Paolo Pellegrin is Athens Photo World 2021 Honorary Photographer.

"As I was Dying" is the first ever showing in Greece of the work of Paolo Pellegrin, Italian photographer and member of the international Magnum agency. Based on his book of the same title, the exhibition reveals the photographer’s emotive gaze that transports viewers to the front lines of the human drama of contemporary history. Pellegrin captures moments of pain, struggle and strength, in places far and wide, and with people as their common denominator. Japan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sudan, Angola, Haiti, Kosovo, Cuba, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, the Vatican and France, diverse places and people parade before our eyes through Pellegrin’s black and white frames. Light, darkness, bodies and expressions are the stars of the photographer’s shots, often in unusual configurations and with an intensity that bursts out of the two-dimensional images to demand the viewer’s attention and contemplation.

The exhibition is organised by Athens Photo World and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and made possible through a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as lead donor to APW, and supported by the Italian Institute of Education in Athens.