Gilles peress biography samples

French photographer (born 1946)

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