Born on 7 September 1968 in Sorengo, Switzerland.

After approaching architectural design, I realised my dream by becoming a physical education teacher. During my professional career, I dedicated myself to photography. For me, photography is a wonderful medium to communicate and, at the same time, to give viewers the opportunity to feel emotions. I do not know whether it is I who seek out the themes or whether the themes themselves seek me out. However, every time such an encounter takes place, an image is born, perfectly in line with myself and my personality.

Swiss photographer Pierre Pellegrini is drawn to remote landscapes dotted by tree groves, snow-topped piers, and structures that have fallen into a state of disarray. Long exposure photographs force Pellegrini to sit quietly with these scenes, meditatively taking in the high contrast landscape as his camera processes the deep blacks and brilliant whites that emerge in the dead of winter. “I simply photograph what I feel, and am always looking for moments and situations where everything is in its place,” he explains to Colossal. “I try to find a sort of harmony between what I see and what I feel.”