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Documentary “Shooting the Mafia” profiles Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, noted for chronicling the lives of underworld figures.
via Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-21/shooting-the-mafia-review
“The camera changed my life,” says Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, the incredibly compelling subject of veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s “Shooting the Mafia.” Before Battaglia picked up a camera at age 40, she was a teenage bride who raised three daughters and endured a rocky marriage. When she walked into the local newspaper in her hometown of Palermo, Sicily, looking for work, she found her calling as a photojournalist, chronicling the Mafia War in Sicily and its high-profile trials.