Paolo Pellegrin’s Magnum Photos exhibition ‘As I Was Dying’ is now on show at the Zephyr Museum in Mannheim, Germany and will run until 11 January 2009.

The exhibition features images from Pellegrin’s book ‘As I Was Dying’ that won the Leica European Publishers Award in 2007 and the German Fotobuchpreis 2008. The black and white photographs on display were shot over a number of years in the war zones and crisis zones of the earth such as Kosovo, Serbia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Haiti, Indonesia and Albania.

The images depict people and places in exceptional situations as captured by Paolo Pellegrin’s camera as he examines the monstrous force that man sometimes uses against man and the impact of death and loss around the world in places of conflict.

Paolo Pellegrin explained: "When I do my work and I am exposed to the suffering of others - their loss or, at times, their death - I feel I am serving as a witness; that is my role and responsibility to create a record for our collective memory. Perhaps it is only in their moment of suffering that these people will be noticed, and noticing erases our excuse of saying one day that we did not know.”

 

Part of the Zephyr Museum space for Paolo Pellegrin’s ‘As I Was Dying’ exhibition.

Pellegrin added: “I also feel that it is in this very delicate and fragile space that surrounds death, the space that I sometimes have both the privilege and the burden of entering, there exists the possibility of an encounter with the other in a way that goes beyond words and culture and differences."

The exhibition is sponsored by Canon Europe and is being held in the Zephyr Museum within the Reiss-Englehorn Museum, Raum für Fotografie, C 4.9 – 68159, Mannheim, Germany. To find out more just click here.