The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2006

Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise

AWARD DATE: 2006

AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2006

RECIPIENT: Paolo Pellegrin

AFFILIATION: Magnum for Newsweek

HONORED WORK: “True Pain: Israel & Hizbullah”

The judges found Pellegrin’s startling pictures to be haunting in their vision of the war and its victims. Based primarily in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre and enduring the dangers of intense Israeli shelling and bombardment, Pellegrin photographed the damage, death, and internal displacement of a country ravaged by conflict. His photographs of the anxieties and terrors of war are universal images. They are full of austere beauty even as they tell a damning truth about the brutal nature of armed conflict and its terrible effects on civilian populations.

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