Career
In 2011, Satu Repo wrote about the first of Pietropaolo"s photographs to be published, in 1971, in This magazine. Those photos were of immigrant workers, on strike outside Artistic Woodwork. She described how "The photos were remarkable in both their intensity and intimacy.
You were face-to-face with these men, solemn but determined, exercising their right to organize.
You couldn’t help but share the photographer’s clear empathy for them."
During the 1970s and 1980s Pietropaolo also worked in the field of city planning, choosing to devote himself exclusively to photography in 1991.