Tullio Farabola was one of the first Italian photojournalists. Son of art (his father specialized in photo portraits), he was born in Milan on 8 October 1920 and, after the Officers' School, he joined the army. In 1942 he was transferred to the Luce Institute in Rome and here he met Adolfo Porry Pastorel, who became a teacher for him, as well as a model of life. Returning to Milan at the end of the war, he founded his agency. In the first post-war years he talked about the difficulties of the city exhausted by bombings and hunger, poverty, the black market, the attack on Togliatti and then the return to life of the citizens, the first open-air dances, the people who do swimming at the Navigli. In short, the agency became one of the best known in the country and collaborated with the main n.