Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily, at the Photographers’ Gallery in London, presents a solo show of work by the trailblazing Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022).
Battaglia documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Her images are some of the best-known records of life in the shadow of the Mafia.
In her relentless pursuit against organised crime, she used her camera to document the daily terror, putting it on the front page. Her pictures also capture the poverty on the streets as well as the life of the upper classes, religious processions, festivals, funerals and much more.
Curated by Paolo Falcone; supported by Italian Cultural Institute London and Fondazione Candido Speroni e Carla Fendi Speroni.
