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Letizia Battaglia was born in Palermo in 1935. She has three daughters. She started photographing in Milan in 1971 and was photography director of the daily newspaper, L’Ora from From 1974 to 1991.

Over the decades, she photographed her native Sicily and Palermo. In the late 1970's and 1980's, she defied the Sicilian mafia with only her camera as her weapon. “Letizia was a woman who was photographing the Mafia during the period of the bloodiest years of its history, destroying taboos. This makes her a figure that goes beyond being a photographer,” said Paolo Falcone, a close …