Tino Petrelli
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Valentino Petrelli better known as Tino, was an Italian photographer, well known for his documentary photography
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At the age of 12 he moved to Milan and in 1937 he started to work for Publifoto as a office boy, but at the age of 16 he started to work as photographer. He covered Italy under fascist rule, the war and reconstruction, as well as the economic boom in the 1960s and the social conflicts in the 1970s.
In 1948 he made a famous series of documentary photographs, showing the misery, exclusion and hunger of the people of Africo
in the Aspromonte
in Calabria
. The series was published in the magazine L’Europeo, jointly with an article, entitled Africo, symbol of disparity, by the journalist Tommaso Besozzi
. The pictures produced an outrage from national public opinion which, at the time, was rediscovering the dramatic situation of the "southern question".
In 1951, he documented the flooding of the Polesine
, which compelled 150,000 people to evacuate the entire area between the lower courses of the Adige
and the Po
rivers.
Documentary photography
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit...
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At the age of 12 he moved to Milan and in 1937 he started to work for Publifoto as a office boy, but at the age of 16 he started to work as photographer. He covered Italy under fascist rule, the war and reconstruction, as well as the economic boom in the 1960s and the social conflicts in the 1970s.
In 1948 he made a famous series of documentary photographs, showing the misery, exclusion and hunger of the people of Africo
Africo
Africo is a comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the Southern Italian region of Calabria at 74 km from Reggio Calabria.Africo consists of two main centers. The first, Africo Vecchio , is located some 15 km in the mainland at the feet of the Aspromonte. The old town was destroyed...
in the Aspromonte
Aspromonte
Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the province of Reggio Calabria . The name means "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate. It overlooks the Strait of Messina, being limited by the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas and by the Pietrace...
in Calabria
Calabria
Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....
. The series was published in the magazine L’Europeo, jointly with an article, entitled Africo, symbol of disparity, by the journalist Tommaso Besozzi
Tommaso Besozzi
Tommaso Francesco Besozzi , also known as Tom, was an Italian journalist and writer...
. The pictures produced an outrage from national public opinion which, at the time, was rediscovering the dramatic situation of the "southern question".
In 1951, he documented the flooding of the Polesine
Polesine
Polesine is a geographic and historic area in the north-east of Italy corresponding nowadays with the province of Rovigo; it is a strip of land about 100-km long and 18-km wide located between the lower courses of the Adige and the Po rivers.- Geography :...
, which compelled 150,000 people to evacuate the entire area between the lower courses of the Adige
Adige
The Adige is a river with its source in the Alpine province of South Tyrol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland. At in length, it is the second longest river in Italy, after the River Po with ....
and the Po
Po River
The Po |Ligurian]]: Bodincus or Bodencus) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face...
rivers.