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Biography
Vincenzo Pietropaolo (born in 1951) is an award-winning photographer known for photographs that display an empathy for his subjects, who has focussed on documentary photography. In 2011, Satu Repo wrote about the first of Pietropaolo's photographs to be published, in 1971, in This magazine. Those photos were of immigrant workers, on strike outside Artistic Woodwork. She described how "The photos were remarkable in both their intensity and intimacy. You were face-to-face with these men, solemn but determined, exercising their right to organize. You couldn’t help but share the photographer’s clear empathy for them." Since then Pietropaolo's photographs have been widely published, have been the subject of gallery shows, and have won awards, including the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award. During the 1970s and 1980s Pietropaolo also worked in the field of city planning, choosing to devote himself exclusively to photography in 1991.
Works
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Catherine Frazee; Wayne Johnston (2010). Invisible No More: A Photographic Chronicle of the Lives of People With Intellectual Disabilities. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813547688.
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo (2009). Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. Between the Lines. ISBN 9781897071540.
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Preface by Nino Ricci (2006). Not Paved with Gold: Italian-Canadian Immigrants in The 1970s. Between the Lines. ISBN 9781897071083.
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Cecelia Elisabeth Burke Lawless (2002). Making Home in Havana. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813530949.
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo (photographs), Introductory essay by Sam Gindin (2000). Canadians at Work / Canadiens au travail. Canadian Auto Workers.
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Text by Jean Cochrane (2000). Kensington. Boston Mills Press. ISBN 9781896357225.
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Introduction by Catherine MacLeod (1999). Celebration of resistance: Ontario's Days of Action. Between the Lines. ISBN 9781896357225.
- Satu Repo with Giuliana Colalillo and Vincenzo Pietropaolo (1978). Marco and Michela (Where We Live). James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 9780888621726.