Gilles Peress

Known for: documentary photography of political violence in Iran, Bosnia, and Rwanda

Gilles Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1974 and has spent his career documenting political violence and its aftermath — the Iranian Revolution, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the wars in Bosnia, and the genocide in Rwanda. His book Telex Iran (1984) used the physical structure of the photobook — sequencing, pacing, white space — as a form of journalistic investigation. He has collaborated with human rights investigators on projects that treat photography as legal evidence.