D Amico Tano
(Lipari - Messina 1943)
Born in Sicily, he moves to Rome in 1967 in the atmosphere of the student protest and he gets interest in photography almost by chance. He starts a long cooperation with Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio.
The first reportages are dedicated to the South of Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. He also travels abroad: Ireland during the civil war, Greece in the Colonels period, Spain of Franco, Portugal during the revolution and many times in Palestine. In the 80’ies and 90’ies he travel in Somalia, Bosnia, Chiapas and US. Journalist and photoreporter he cooperates with Il Manifesto and La Repubblica. His look is immediately distinguishable  from  the other photographs’. He is not interested in the news stories but more in the reasons behind them. He follow closely the development of the student and workers’movement during all the 70’ies, with images going behind the cliché of the violence.
He is close to the workers, the miners and to the feminists. He takes pictures of prisons, barracks and mental hospitals. D’Amico is the photographer of the no-power men, of the losers. He is able to fix the human beauty  in the social discomforts and represents it with complicity and participation, making of the black/white and of the 35 mm lens a precise stylistic choice. Among other works, he has published: “Volevamo solo cambiare il mondo” (2008), “E´il 77” (2007), “Una storia di donne, Il movimento al femminile dal ´70 agli anni no global” (2003) e “Gli anni ribelli” (1968-1980).



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