Letizia Battaglia
A highpoint for me when the police searched my archive and found I had accidentally photographed the Italian PM Giulio Andreotti with the mafioso Nino Salvo. It was an essential piece of evidence linking him with the mafia.
Letizia Battaglia via The Guardian, 20 Feb 2014
Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022, Italy) is an Sicilian photograher and photojournalist. Although her work documents a wide spectrum of Sicilian lofe, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. Battaglia is driven in her work by her love of photography and by a strong need for justice. In the 70s and 80s –the peak of Mafia killings in Sicily- Battaglia took countless of photographs of Mafia crimes. Her work is an indictment to these cruelties. Despite this harsh reality, Battagia always seeks to find beauty in her suroundings. With an extremely sharp eye for detail and the right moment, she creates loving and beautiful portraits of woman and children in impoverished Palermo.
