Canon Ft: Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Leica Cameras

canon ft: Vincenzo Pietropaolo By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Sat., Jan. 7, 2017 Since 1969, Vincenzo Pietropaolo has attended the Good Friday processions in Toronto's Little Italy every year except one, in 1996, when a work project took him out of the country, according to Toronto Star. In the early days, the young Italian migrant would use his Canon FT a gift from his father and Leica cameras to photograph the actors in theatrical biblical costumes, tireless volunteers behind the scenes and mesmerized spectators along the route in the heart of the Italian Canadian community. Francis of Assisi Church at the end of the 1981 Good Friday procession in Toronto's Little Italy. The religious procession one of the largest outside of Italy isn't just an annual Easter weekend ritual for Pietropaolo and many generations of Italian Canadians, but now has turned into a photography book documenting the changing face of the community over a 46-year span through its single most visible public event. For one day, the streets belong to us, said the documentary photographer, who settled in Toronto with his family from Calabria at age 11 in 1963, a year after the event was inaugurated. The procession provides the community a means to express and affirm itself in the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.