Little Italy_a community portrait
Over a thirty-year period, photographer Bruno Crescia has used his camera to witness the cycles of birth, life and death within his community - Toronto’s Little Italy.
These are intensely personal pictures, honest, unflinching, full of compassion. Images of his aging mother and the illness and death of his father carry the timeline forward. The path is peopled with street toughs, immigrants, working class people, virgin brides, young communion girls, macho men, beautiful women and the handicapped.
Their lives play out in kitchens, on the street, in barbershops, at religious processions, in back alley garages, and in backyards filled with laundry and vegetables.
Here is a small sampling of this insightful body of work…
