(ANSA) – CITTÀ DEL MESSICO, 26 MAR – The Italian Cultural Institute of Mexico City, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy, the Letizia Battaglia Archive and the Ministry of Culture of Mexico, will inaugurate on 10 April at the Centro de la Imagen of the Aztec capital the exhibition ‘Letizia Battaglia. Chronicle, life, love’, a retrospective that brings together the most emblematic works of the well-known Italian photojournalist, developed between the 1970s and 1990s, documenting, among other things, mafia violence and social inequality in Sicily, as well as daily life in Palermo.
In Sicily, the journalistic photography with which Letizia Battaglia (Palermo 1935-2022) made her debut in the mid-1970s was confronted with and witnessed the mafia wars that had bloodied this land for a quarter of a century.
Battaglia, the only woman of her time to carry out this profession, meticulously records the horror and the everydayness of death that seem to constitute the structure of an archaic society, worthy of a Greek tragedy.
However, the photographer’s gaze does not surrender to blood, but dwells on the original innocence that belongs to children and the defenceless.
Her photos, almost always taken in a social context of unimaginable degradation, show hope and life that wants to flourish despite adversity. This is also the reason for the title of the exhibition: the chronicle surrenders to life, thanks to the feeling of love behind the camera.
In every circumstance, even in the most tragic, there is a spark of hope, which is none other than the sense of love for life, hidden beneath the violent chronicle of a land as tormented as it is vital.
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In Sicily, the journalistic photography with which Letizia Battaglia (Palermo 1935-2022) made her debut in the mid-1970s was confronted with and witnessed the mafia wars that had bloodied this land for a quarter of a century.
Battaglia, the only woman of her time to carry out this profession, meticulously records the horror and the everydayness of death that seem to constitute the structure of an archaic society, worthy of a Greek tragedy.
However, the photographer’s gaze does not surrender to blood, but dwells on the original innocence that belongs to children and the defenceless.
Her photos, almost always taken in a social context of unimaginable degradation, show hope and life that wants to flourish despite adversity. This is also the reason for the title of the exhibition: the chronicle surrenders to life, thanks to the feeling of love behind the camera.
In every circumstance, even in the most tragic, there is a spark of hope, which is none other than the sense of love for life, hidden beneath the violent chronicle of a land as tormented as it is vital.
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