LETIZIA BATTAGLIA
Letizia Battaglia
Près de l’église Santa Chiara, le jeu du killer, Palerme, 1982
Photographie de Letizia Battaglia. ©Archivio Letizia Battaglia
Letizia Battaglia
Abattu en allant chercher sa voiture au garage, Palerme, 1977
Photographie de Letizia Battaglia. ©Archivio Letizia Battaglia
Arrestation du féroce chef mafieux Leoluca Bagarella, Palerme 1979. Photogaphie de Letizia Battaglia ©Archivio Letizia Battaglia
BIOGRAPHIE
A member of the Magnum agency from 1988 to 1991, Franco Zecchin (1953) now lives and works in Marseille, where he continues to explore social practices through
photography and coordinates a photography workshop as part of a
master's and doctoral program at EHESS. The International Museum of Photography in Rochester, the MoMA in New York, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris have his photographs in their collections.
In 1980, he co-founded the Giuseppe Impastato Documentation Center with Letizia Battaglia, in tribute to the anti-Mafia activist who was murdered. He recently produced a photographic collection dedicated to Letizia Battaglia. From September 27, 2025, to January 25, 2026, he will present a solo exhibition Battaglia. From September 27, 2025, to January 25, 2026, he will present a solo exhibition entitled “Life in Sicily” at the Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
- Letizia, Festival Fotografico Europeo, Busto Arsizio, Italie
2022
- Continent Sicile, Festival Isole che Parlano, Palau, Sardaigne, Italie
2019
- Continent Sicile, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palerme, Italie
- Photographier le silence. Enquête visuelle sur un espace monastique Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
- Ceux de L’Ora (exposition collective), Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palerme, Italie
2018
- La condition humaine. Au-delà de l’institution totale (exposition collective)
Palazzo Ajutamicristo, Palerme, Italie
2015
- Silésie, Foto Art Festival, Bielsko‑Biała, Pologne
- Notre histoire – 60 ans en Italie et dans le monde à travers les photographies de L’Espresso (exposition collective), Monument Vittoriano, Rome, Italie
2013
- Antimafia (avec Letizia Battaglia), Musée de l’Arsenal, Metz, France
- Antimafia, Festival Européen de la Photographie, Busto Arsizio, Italie
2012
- Giovanni Falcone – Un héros italien, Ambassade d’Italie, Washington D.C., États-Unis
2011
- Les 30 ans du New York Times Magazine (exposition collective), Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2008
- Antimafia, Institut Culturel Italien, Marseille, France
2007
- Cosa Nostra, Galerie Confluences, Paris, France
2004
- Crimes et corruption : chroniques siciliennes, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australie
1998
- Mafieux, à genoux ! Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
1996
- Nomades, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
1995
- La Sicile noire et blanche, Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie, Bastia, et Médiathèque André-Malraux, Tourcoing, France
1993
- Sicile, Mai de la Photo, Reims, France
1990
- Photographie italienne, FotoFest, Houston, États-Unis
1988
- Palerme, centre historique, Parlement Européen, Strasbourg, France
1986
- Sicile et Mafia, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, États-Unis