Pellegrin embodies a new generation of photojournalists: aware of the new means of producing and spreading news images, committed to renewing the vision of the events he documents, always careful to keep an ethical attitude. He often uses a metaphor: photography is like a language to learn, a distant language one approaches fascinated by its mystery, until it reveals its laws and the photographer begins to speak a few words and find his own syntax to tell stories. And he has told many, hard and sometimes tragic ones, of wars, human dramas and peoples in danger, choosing pure photojournalism that is not afraid to look the world in the eye. "My role, my responsibility, is to create an archive of our collective memory."