David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. Town of Rogiano Gravina. 1950. The battle against illiteracy. Peasant during a writing class. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour The battle against illiteracy. Peasant during a writing class. Town of Rogiano Gravina. Calabria. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. Town of Rogiano Gravina. 1950.
Furniture of a newly married couple is carried down the streets. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
Furniture of a newly married couple is carried down the streets. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Inside a school in Cimino, near the village of San Marco Argentano, Cosenza. The teacher, Olga Natale, sits besides the doorway. She complained about the conditions of the school - the roof leaks a (...)
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. Town of Rogiano Gravina. 1950.
The battle against illiteracy. Peasant during a writing class. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
The battle against illiteracy. Peasant during a writing class. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. Village of Saucci. 1950.
The battle against illiteracy. Antonio JANNI, schoolteacher, prepares lunch for his pupils. Every morning he drives up the mountain path on his motor scc (...)
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg Saucci. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. Village of Saucci. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Woman carrying a large bundle on her head. Calabria. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg Near San Nicolo da Crissa. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. 1950. Saucci children travel to school through the mountain paths. They often walk miles from outlying villages to attend school and in the winter, the paths are very dangerous. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. 1950. Teacher Antonio Jannì chats with his pupils during lunch recess in front of the school. After school, he usually stays in Saucci to teach the adults reading and writing. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour A tattered map of Europe in a classroom. Bagaladi. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour School children push teacher Antonio Jannì’s scooter before riding to Bagaladi. There is no room for Jannì in Saucci and he lives in Bagaladi, 16km away. The road is extremely dangerous in winterti (...)
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg A girl Saucci. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Elementary school. San Nicola da Crissa. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. San Nicola da Crissa. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg Land Occupation. The man in the center, Oreste Rossini, has a family of five, land holdings of three acres, and is a very active pupil in the evening classes at the Center. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg San Nicola da Crissa. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. 1950. This shepherd boy from Cimino started working while still of school age and cannot attend school. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg Roggiano Gravina’s workshop at the Center. Boys are preparing plastic maps of Italy to be used in the Roggiano Gravina school, and later on, when the local needs are satisfied, to be offered to poo (...)
David Seymour Italy. 1950. Old peasant at his beginner’s writing class. After successful work with young peasants, the Roggiano Gravina Center was making efforts to attract women and aged people. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. 1950. Giuseppe Zanfini, director of the Roggiano Gravina Center, reading a letter which has just arrived to an illiterate peasant, Emilia Tuoto. The letter comes from Emilia’s son, Nicola, (...)
David Seymour Italy. Roggiano Gravina. 1950. The little girl in the center is doing her school homework. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Italy. 1950. Evening class at the Roggiano Gravina Center. Some of the peasants have to walk eight km from their homes to attend the class. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Girls in an elementary school in San Nicolo da Crissa. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Old peasant at his beginner’s writing class. After successful work with young peasants, the Roggiano Gravina Center was making efforts to attract women and aged people. Italy. 1950. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Contact sheet. IThe battle against illiteracy. Calabria. Italy. 1950. © UNESCO/David Seymour, Magnum Photos © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Corpus Domini. Campobasso. Italy. 1955. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © UNESCO / David Seymour, Magnum Photos © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg School for crippled children, most of them victims of shell explosions. Vienna. Austria. 1948. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Calabria. The battle against illiteracy. 1950. Contact sheet. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Contact sheet. The battle against illiteracy. Calabria. Italy. 1950. © UNESCO / David Seymour, Magnum Photos © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg A reformatory school for tough children. Many children go barefoot because of the acute shortage of footwear. Vienna. Austria. 1948. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Warsaw. Secondary school.
Experiment to prove volume of oxygen in air. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
Experiment to prove volume of oxygen in air. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour ITALY. Rome. 1948.
Blind boy who lost his arms during the war has learnt to read with his lips. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
Blind boy who lost his arms during the war has learnt to read with his lips. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Peasants working on uncultivated land, near Rome. Italy. 1948. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
