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 Paolo Pellegrin was born on March 11, 1964, in Rome. He worked on many projects such as photographing people in Italy, Balkans, and Bosnia. Another one of his projects was taking pictures of kids after the war in Bosnia, while also traveling to different countries such as Mexico, Kenya, and Zimbabwe to photograph AIDS/HIV. He's an extremely decorated photographer who has won many awards. Some of them include 10 World Press Photo Awards, Lecia Medal of Excellence, Hansel Mieth Prize, W. Euguene Smith Grant, Robert Capa Gold, and the Lecia European Publishers Award for Photography.  This is a picture Paolo took of a Ukrainian conscript being trained before being sent to war against Russia in 2023. This picture perfectly encapsulates the suddenness of the conflict and the complete upheaval of the lives of these Ukrainians who have no choice but to fight to protect their families and their country. This portrait seems to convey the dread this soldier feels while training, like th...

 Ernst Hass was born on March 2, 1921, in Vienna, Austria. He was mainly a photojournalist and color photographer and spent 40 years in his career.  He spent his early years studying art and gaining an education, but once World War 2 broke out, he could no longer study due to Germany's invasion of Austria. After his father died, he started gaining more interest in photography which later culminated into a long and highly decorated career. He became president of Magnum Photos and had his photos in many museums and popular magazines, such as Vogue. He was listed as one of the 10 greatest photographers in the world by a magazine and he won the Hasselblad Award. After his death in 1985, he had multiple awards named after him such as the Ernst Haas Award for Creative Photography. While browsing through Ernst's pictures, this one really caught my eye. It's a landscape photo showing a suburban road in the 20th century. There are a couple of things I like about this photo. The firs...

 Jeff Wall was born in Vancouver, Canada, on September 29, 1946. He is a well-known artist focused on photography.  He went to the University of British Columbia where he used to be a painter, but after he finished this thesis, he stopped making art and focused more on his photography. He became renowned for his ingenious ability to create large, staged photographs that explored many complicated themes. His photography was inspired by movies and art history and focused on challenging long-standing notions of perception and representation. His works earned him worldwide fame and respect and forever molded him into one of the most impactful creators of contemporary photography. He won the Hasselblad Award in 2002, the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2006, Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007, and the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievements in 2008, showing his influence in the art world. This picture seems to show a messy room with a man hunched over, and hundreds of ...