A beautifully written profile on Paolo Pellegrin, by Ben Taub for The New Yorker...
For as long as the celebrated photojournalist has been doing his best work, he has been grappling with the threat of blindness.
At 2:30 a.m., on January 10th, Paolo Pellegrin, the Italian photographer and winner of ten World Press Photo awards, was loading his gear into the back of a Toyota truck on the edge of the Namib Desert. The sky was a void except for millions of stars. With the aid of a headlamp, Pellegrin fumbled through his bag. He pulled out a small plastic vial of medicine, broke off the top, and put a drop in each eye. “I almost never forget this,” he told me. There are days when he takes no pictures, but there are no days when he can afford to miss a dose.
