"Photography is really so complicated. It might look so immediate but it’s an incredibly complex, multi-layered thing. So I’m there trying to concentrate on all the different ingredients when occasionally a moment transcends all that. Ultimately these pictures have a special meaning in my journey. I treasure them because they’re like gifts – signs that something is good. The connection, that’s what’s important – that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other."
-Paolo Pellegrin (from the book, Magnum Stories)


"Paolo uses these tools to emphasize his point. His style is at the service of his social conscience; he covers wars and political upheavals, today’s great waves of our history … unlike many a photographer today who uses the same tools as gadgets, whose photography is all style but lacks content. This is why I offered to edit his work for this book.”
-Abbas (from the book, Magnum Magnum)