Paolo Pellegrin

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Paolo Pellegrin is a photojournalist. He was born in Rome, Italy, into a family of architects. He is a member of the Magnum agency.

 

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  • Israel, 2009 Christians from all over the world come to immerse themselves in the waters of the Jordan at the site where they believe Jesus was baptized.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Jordan, 2009 After six years of drought, measuring sticks are useless at Jordan’s Ziglab Dam, built to catch water flowing west into the Jordan River for irrigation. Its reservoir has shrunk to a fifth of capacity and has not filled since 2003, forcing Jordan to ration water.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 Girls from a West Bank village cool off in the briny waters of the Dead Sea, the world’s deepest saltwater lake. Naturally buoyant waters make it a favorite of bathers. Yet levels are dropping more than three feet a year.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 At a water park in Tiberias, Israelis bask in the resource’s relative abundance. A 2009 World Bank report said Israelis use four times as much water per capita as Palestinians. Israel has disputed this, saying its citizens use only twice as much.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 Israelis relax by the Sea of Galilee, a lake near the Golan Heights that is fed by the Jordan River and that supplies a third of Israel’s fresh water.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 Mesh-covered banana plantations like this one abound along both sides of the Jordan River. The tropical crop is lucrative, but it requires eight times as much water as tomatoes, which are also locally grown.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 As pilgrims bathe and mill behind them, Israeli border police stand guard on the Jordan River’s western bank. Over on the Jordanian side, churches and a tourist center commemorate the traditional site of Jesus’s baptism.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 A bird’s-eye view of the Dead Sea reveals a bleached expanse once covered by water. The level of the inland sea has dropped some 70 feet since 1978 due to evaporation and the greatly diminished flow of its main tributary, the Jordan River.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • West Bank, 2009 A source of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, water is emblematic of their imbalanced relationship. During dry summers, West Bank Palestinians—restricted to shallow wells by Israel’s occupation—have to buy groundwater tapped from beneath them.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin
  • Israel, 2009 Shards of sunlight illuminate the Jordan River as it flows into the Sea of Galilee. The biblical stream’s headwaters are to the north, near Mount Hermon. Its final destination is the Dead Sea, some 200 miles downstream from the point of origin.
    Photo by: Paolo Pellegrin

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