Shooting the Mafia

Kim Longinotto directs this documentary focusing on Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia. Battaglia narrates her life from her working-class upbringing in Palermo, Sicily, marrying young, and beginning her photography career in her forties, when she became the first female photographer to be employed by an Italian paper. Despite setting out to document women, children and daily life on Sicilian streets, Battaglia instead found herself capturing acclaimed images of the ever-present violence around her during the 1970s and '80s.