Valentino Petrelli (August 6, 1922 – September 8, 2001 in
Piacenza
Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...
), better known as Tino, was an Italian photographer, well known for his
documentary photography
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional pho ...
.
At the age of 12 he moved to
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
and in 1937 he started to work for Publifoto as an 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.
[Tino Petrelli fotografo. Il lavoro nell'Italia che cambia (1945-1970)]
Ex Centrale Enel, press release, September 22, 2001[Tino Petrelli fotografo]
Mediastudies, Roma Tre (Retrieved: 19/08/2015)
In 1948 he made a famous series of documentary photographs, showing the misery, exclusion and hunger of the people of
Africo
Africo ( Calabrian: ; ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the Southern Italian region of Calabria located from Reggio Calabria.
Africo consists of two main centers. The first, Africo Vecchio (Old Africo), is located some in ...
in the
Aspromonte
The Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (Calabria, southern Italy). The literal translation of the name means "rough mountain". But for others the name more likely is related to the Greek word Aspros ( Ά ...
in
Calabria
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. The series was published in the magazine ''
L’Europeo
''L'Europeo'' was a prominent Italian weekly news magazine launched on 4 November 1945, by the founder-editors Gianni Mazzocchi and Arrigo Benedetti. '', jointly with an article, entitled ''Africo, symbol of disparity'', by the journalist
Tommaso Besozzi
Tommaso Francesco Besozzi (20 January 1903 – 18 November 1964), also known as Tom, was an Italian journalist and writer. He is considered to be one of the most important post-war journalists of Italy and his writing style earned him the epithet ...
.
[Africo, emblema della disperazione]
by Tommaso Besozzi, L’Europeo Nr. 12, March 1948 The pictures produced an outrage from national public opinion which, at the time, was rediscovering the dramatic situation of the "
southern question
The economy of Italy is a highly developed social market economy. It is the third-largest national economy in the European Union, the 10th-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and the 12th-largest by GDP (PPP). Italy is a founding member of t ...
".
[''Food and Fatness in Calabria'', by Vito Teti, in , edited by I. de Garine and Nancy J. Pollock, Routledge, 1995, ]
In 1951, he documented the flooding of the
Polesine
Polesine (; vec, label=unified Venetian script, Połéxine ) is a geographic and historic area in the north-east of Italy whose limits varied through centuries; it had also been known as Polesine of Rovigo for some time.
Nowadays it corresponds ...
, which compelled 150,000 people to evacuate the entire area between the lower courses of the
Adige
The Adige (; german: Etsch ; vec, Àdexe ; rm, Adisch ; lld, Adesc; la, Athesis; grc, Ἄθεσις, Áthesis, or , ''Átagis'') is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the prov ...
and the
Po rivers.
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References
External links
Valentino Petrelli
collection of photos on LombardiaBeniCulturali.it
Valentino Tino Petrelli: La nostra storia per immagini
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1922 births
2001 deaths
People from the Province of Pordenone
Italian photographers
Italian photojournalists