Letizia Battaglia was an impassioned activist and fearless documentarian who lived by the heart and the camera.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-sicilian-photographer-who-fought-the-mafia/An impassioned activist and fearless documentarian, Letizia Battaglia lived by the heart and the camera.
Anti-mafia journalist from Palermo scoured Sicilian alleyways in 1970s and 1980s to expose brutal violence
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/letizia-battaglia-photojournalist-who-documented-mafia-crimes-dies-aged-87Armed only with her Leica camera and mounted on a Vespa, Battaglia scoured the alleyways of Palermo during the 1970s and 1980s photographing the victims of mafia murders and the internal wars between rival clans. As a result she received several death threats.
Since 1971, Letizia Battaglia has documented the rich, dangerous, and sun-bathed lives of the people of Sicily’s capital, Palermo. For years she worked as a photojournalist for the now-defunct newspaper L’Ora, but packed it in when the paper closed.
