Hard Lives. Chronicles of migration, hardship, and solitude from Piedmont to Northern Europe in Mauro Vallinotto's 1970s photographs

When
From November 14, 2025 to November 20, 2025
Where
Hall of the College of Surveyors
hours
Friday and Saturday, 4-7 pm; Sunday, 10 am-12 pm and 4-7 pm
Typology
Hard Lives. Chronicles of migration, hardship, and solitude from Piedmont to Northern Europe in Mauro Vallinotto's 1970s photographs

From November 14th to 20th 2025, Sala del Collegio dei Geometri (via L. Einaudi 20) • Friday and Saturday, 4-7pm; Sunday, 10am-12pm and 4-7pm • Free admission

The photographs—acquired by the ISRCN thanks to the MIC's "Photography Strategy 2022" call for proposals—recount the lives of Italian workers employed in West German factories, Belgian mines, and the new working-class neighborhoods of Turin in the 1970s. Opening: Friday, November 14, at 5:00 p.m., with Mauro Vallinotto, catalog curator Gigi Garelli, and historian Massimo L. Salvadori in attendance. Weekdays: for groups and school groups, reservations required (didattica@istitutoresistenzacuneo.it).

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