Letizia Battaglia on show in Forlì: 50 years of pictures

by Redazione , revealed on 14/09/2025
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More than 200 photographs of Letizia Battaglia chronicle her inventive and civic journey from 1970 to 2020 on the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì, in an up to date exhibition with unpublished pictures, magazines and a docufilm about her life.

From Oct. 18, 2025, to Jan. 11, 2026, the San Domenico Civic Museum in Forli will host a significant exhibition devoted to Letizia Battaglia, a Sicilian photographer who handed away in 2022 and whose work marked the historical past of Italian pictures and social reportage. The exhibition, titled Letizia Battaglia. The Work: 1970-2020, is curated by Walter Guadagnini and presents an articulated narrative of greater than 50 years of her profession, reconstructing the writer’s inventive, skilled and civic path by means of greater than 200 pictures, books, newspapers and magazines from her private archive.

The exhibition venture is the results of a collaboration between CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography, the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris and the Letizia Battaglia Archive, and for the Forlì cease sees the organizational contribution of the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì and the Municipality of Forlì. The Italian exhibition represents an up to date model of the earlier French exhibitions, introduced in 2024 on the Jeu de Paume in Tours and in 2025 on the Rencontres d’Arles worldwide pageant, enriched with unpublished pictures and editorial supplies that develop the narrative of the photographer’s work. This is the primary Italian leg of the exhibition.

In addition to photographic pictures, the exhibition contains 22 magazines with which Battaglia collaborated, in some instances additionally serving as founder and editor. The exhibition additionally features a docufilm on the photographer’s life, providing a extra full image of her exercise and the social context by which she labored. The show goals to doc the number of her pursuits, from information reporting to social pictures, from civil reportage to inventive experimentation, highlighting the continuity of her dedication and the consistency of her vital gaze on society.

The San Domenico Civic Museum, already linked to the cultural actions promoted by the photographer, turns into a spot to reinforce a heritage that has helped outline the visible reminiscence of Sicily and modern Italy. Battaglia’s pictures, rigorous and direct, rigorously and unfiltered doc every day life, organized crime, political and social occasions, providing a cross-section of the nation by means of the attentive eye of a photographer who has been capable of mix aesthetic analysis and civil testimony.

Letizia Battaglia on show in Forlì: 50 years of pictures

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