How Letizia Battaglia Used Photography in a War Against the Mafia – Feature Shoot

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How Letizia Battaglia Used Photography in a War Against the Mafia – Feature Shoot

The words are in Italian but the message is clear: “The Mafia kills. So does silence.” This is the omerta, the code of silence the Sicilian mafia has imposed upon…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/how-letozia-battaglia-used-photography-in-a-war-against-the-mafia/

It as a position Sicilian photographer Letizia Battalgia refused to adopt. Ever since she became the first woman photographer working for a daily newspaper, Battalgia has used her camera as a tool for the people and a weapon against those who sought to destroy them.

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