Tullio Farabola was one of the first Italian photojournalists. Son of an artist (his father was specialized in photographic portraits), he was born in Milan on 8 October 1920 and, after the Officers' School, he enlisted in the army. In 1942 he was transferred to the Istituto Luce in Rome and here he met Adolfo Porry Pastorel, who became a teacher for him, as well as a model for life. Having returned to Milan at the end of the war, he founded his own agency. In the early post-war years he recounted the difficulties of the city exhausted by the bombings and hunger, the poverty, the black market, the attack on Togliatti and then the return to life of the citizens, the first open-air dances, people bathing in the Navigli. The agency soon became one of the best-known in the country and collabor.