Lia Pasqualino's exhibition. Palermo - Banco di Sicilia Foundation
I consider Lia Pasqualino an immense photographer. natural heir of Letizia Battaglia, like her Palazzolo knows how to express more than anyone else the violence and sweetness of the streets of this city, beautiful and terrible at the same time. If you, a foreigner, find yourself passing through here, enter and look, indeed, no; observe and you will see as much beauty as you have never seen in as much misery as, unfortunately, you will still see
The elderly lady you see in the center of the photo is Letizia Battaglia, a great Sicilian photojournalist. She began her career in the late sixties, collaborating with the Palermo newspaper L'Ora (closed because it was too inconvenient), in a Palermo where it was unthinkable that a woman could do this job (especially if she was at the scene of a dead killed for mafia). Hampered and mocked by her male colleagues, she soon gained international fame with her snaps.
I consider Lia Pasqualino her heir, even if times are different (fortunately and unfortunately), Lia has the same dramatic ability to interpret my land, giving a certain sweetness (as Letizia knew how to do) even to the crudest and most dramatic.
Lia Pasqualino's exhibition. Palermo - Banco di Sicilia Foundation
I consider Lia Pasqualino an immense photographer. natural heir of Letizia Battaglia, like her Palazzolo knows how to express more than anyone else the violence and sweetness of the streets of this city, beautiful and terrible at the same time. If you, a foreigner, find yourself passing through here, enter and look, indeed, no; observe and you will see as much beauty as you have never seen in as much misery as, unfortunately, you will still see
The elderly lady you see in the center of the photo is Letizia Battaglia, a great Sicilian photojournalist. She began her career in the late sixties, collaborating with the Palermo newspaper L'Ora (closed because it was too inconvenient), in a Palermo where it was unthinkable that a woman could do this job (especially if she was at the scene of a dead killed for mafia). Hampered and mocked by her male colleagues, she soon gained international fame with her snaps.
I consider Lia Pasqualino her heir, even if times are different (fortunately and unfortunately), Lia has the same dramatic ability to interpret my land, giving a certain sweetness (as Letizia knew how to do) even to the crudest and most dramatic.