Historical researcher, writer and cultural animator, documentary filmmaker and photographer, author of numerous ethno-anthropological researches. His Sound Archive (containing recordings of extraordinary interest, made in the late 1970s in northern Apulia) can be consulted in the Rinaldi Fund of theApulia Sound Archive in Bari.
He conceived and directed, on behalf of the Region of Puglia and the Municipality of Cerignola, the Casa Di Vittorio Project and organized and directed for the Ministry of Culture the literary reviews Leggere la fatica di leggere, Cerignola Città delle parole and Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra via ...
He collaborated with Umberto Sangiovanni, a musician and composer, on his works La Controra and Calasole (RAITrade) and was a historical consultant to director Alessandro Piva for the documentary film Pasta nera, which was presented in 2011 at the Venice International Film Festival.
Author of several publications, including: (with Roberto Cipriani and Paola Sobrero), Il simbolo conteso. Political and religious symbolism in southern grassroots cultures (Ianua 1979); (with Paola Sobrero) La memoria che resta. Vita quotidiana, mito e storia dei braccianti nel Tavoliere di Puglia (1981, n.e. Aramirè 2004); I treni della felicità. Stories of children traveling between two Italies (Ediesse 2009), finalist for the Alessandro Tassoni Literary Prize; A Sud. The Tale of the Long Silence. Riccardo Cucciolla and Matteo Salvatore (Squilibri 2014); Il primo testimone, short story included in the anthology Puglia, la sposa promessa (Les Flâneurs 2021).
His latest book, I was on that train too. The true story of the children who united Italy (Solferino 2021, Benedetto Croce Prize for journalistic literature). He edits his personal blog giorinaldi.com