Gilles Peress
1946–
Introduction
Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos.
Peress began working with photography in 1970, having previously studied political science and philosophy in Paris. One of Peress' first projects examined immigration in Europe, and he has since documented events in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, the Balkans, Rwanda, the U.S., Afghanistan and Iraq. His ongoing project, Hate Thy Brother, a cycle of documentary narratives, looks at intolerance and the re-emergence of nationalism throughout the world and its consequences.
Peress' books include Whatever You Say, Say Nothing; Annals of the North; Telex Iran; The Silence: Rwanda; Farewell to Bosnia; The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar; A Village Destroyed; and Haines.
Peress' work has been exhibited and is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA PS1, all in New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée Picasso, Parc de la Villette and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; Museum Folkwang, Essen; and Sprengel Museum in Hannover.
Awards and fellowships Peress has received include a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, Pollock-Krasner and New York State Council on the Arts fellowships, the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography and the International Center of Photography Infinity Award.
Peress is Professor of Human Rights and Photography at Bard College in New York and Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley. Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1971 and served three times as vice president and twice as president of the co-operative. He and his wife, Alison Cornyn, live in Brooklyn with their three children.
Wikidata identifier
Q324062
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13 works
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Massacre site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda
1994 -
Rwandan Hutu refugees waiting for medical attention, Benaco, Tanzania
1994 -
Sick, abandoned Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire
1994 -
The beginning of the Krajina War, a church ransacked by the retreating Serb forces, near Knin, Krajina, Croatia
1993 -
Bosnian Muslim refugees from Banja Luca, arriving at a dispatching center, Travnik, Bosnia
1993 -
Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderia, Sarajevo, Bosnia
1993 -
First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland
1981 -
On the Loyalist Shankhill Road, Belfast, Ireland
1981 -
Mountain Village, Kurdistan
1979, printed 1989 -
Posters in front of the U.S. Embassy, Teheran, Iran 1979
1979 -
A Pro-Khomeini demonstration in a stadium, Tabriz, Iran
1979 -
Women in the courtyard of the main mosque, Quom, Iran
1979 -
Bottom of William Street one minute before the British Parachute Regiment opened fire, killing thirteen civilians--an event known as Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland
1972