Chasing the mafia: the wild, Vespa-riding life of Letizia Battaglia ? in pictures
Desperation of a son, Palermo, 1976
Because of her photographs, Battaglia spent many years fearing assassination. Even so, she chose not to have bodyguards. In 2017 she told the Guardian : ?You no longer knew who your friends or enemies were. In the morning you came out of the house and did not know if you?d come back in the evening?