Gilles Peress (1946 - present) is an internationally renowned photojournalist.

Peress began working as a photographer in 1970, embarking on an intimate portrayal of life in a French coal mining village as it emerged from the ashes of a debilitating labor dispute. He then joined Magnum Photos, the prestigious photography agency founded by Robert Capa.

Peress soon traveled to Northern Ireland to begin an ongoing 20-year project about the Irish civil rights struggle. One of his most famous pictures from this period captures a young man named Patrick Doherty moments before he was killed whilst crawling to safety in the forecourt of the Rossville flats during Bloody Sunday (1972). This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

"Power in the Blood," a book that synthesizes his years of work in Northern Ireland, is the first part of his ongoing project called "Hate Thy Brother," a cycle of documentary stories that describe intolerance and the re-emergence of nationalism in the postwar years. "Farewell to Bosnia" was the first part of this cycle, and "The Silence," a book about the genocide in Rwanda, was the second. Jump to: navigation, search // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and... Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...

In 1979 Peress traveled to Iran in the midst of a revolution. His highly regarded book, "Telex Iran: In the Name of Revolution," is about the fragile relationship between American and Iranian cultures during the hostage crisis.

Peress has also completed other major projects, including a photographic study of the lives of Turkish immigrant workers in Germany, and a recent examination of the contemporary legacy of the Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830) was a South American revolutionary leader. ...

"I work much more like a forensic photographer in a certain way, collecting evidence. I've started to take more still lifes, like a police photographer, collecting evidence as a witness. I've started to borrow a different strategy than that of the classic photojournalist. The work is much more factual and much less about good photography. I don't care that much anymore about "good photography." I'm gathering evidence for history, so that we remember"

– Gilles Peress, U.S. News, October 6, 1997 U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

Sources: Gilles Peress Biography, NYTimes.com Specials (http://www.nytimes.com/specials/bosnia/peress.html)