The monograph, which accompanies the opening exhibition of the new museum of Intesa Sanpaolo in Piazza San Carlo in Turin, presents the work of the Italian photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin, through the photographic reports that the author has dedicated to the theme of climate change. Paolo Pellegrin (1964) is one of the undisputed masters of international contemporary photography. Over the course of his long career, he has been able to document the reality of our time with a rare awareness of the dual role of photography: on the one hand a testimony of reality and on the other an instrument of investigation of subjectivity.
This corpus of images is dedicated to one of the central themes of contemporaneity: the relationship between man and nature.
Paolo Pellegrin has travelled for over a year in search of images that immortalize the grandeur of nature: from Iceland to Greenland, from Sicily to Trentino Alto-Adige, from Namibia to Costa Rica, his shots gather around the presence of the four natural elements (earth, water, air and fire), on which humanity has always wondered, in a sort of metaphorical and spiritual interpretation that bypasses the rigidities of scientific knowledge.