• SORAYA MELGUIZO

    Rome

Updated Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 10:26 pm

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Letizia Battaglia (Palermo, 1935) still remembers the first time she photographed a body. It was a half-barefoot man, a small mobster shot dead in the middle of a Sicilian olive grove. He had been dead for several days and the smell was unbearable. He had started working three days before as a photojournalist in the local newspaper L'Ora, a brave left-wing newspaper that paid dearly for his denunciation of organized crime when the word mafia was still taboo. That ins

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