Film Commission Torino Piemonte

"The most fragile tank of italian photography", is how Piero Berengo Gardin, film director and cousin of a photographer Gianni, used ti define me. Paola says this with a laugh and deep down thinks that Piero could not have found a better definition.

Paola Agosti - whose great, true lifelong passion is the animal universe - with her petite build evokes anything but a war vehicle. Her strength emerges from the personality and it is not surprising that she managed to establish herself in the world of italian photography in the 1960s, becoming one of its leading lights, when the profession of photojournalism was essentially a job for men only.

This is the story of a wolman as well as of a country, of a vocation encountered by chance, of e learning journey of the world through the attentive and discreet gaze of one of the few photographers who has been able ti capture and bear witness to the irruption of women on the italian political scene as social subjects. And not only that. Paola Agosti's gazehas wandered in many directions and has recounted much more, she has portrayed the world: great political events and international leaders, the struggles of workers, feminists, students, the end of peasant civilization in Piedmont, the emigration of Piedmontese people to Argentina, the animal universe. Above all, she has portrayed culture and writing through their protagonists, and she has done so as a true portait photographer.