Letizia Battaglia, a world-renowned photographer whose courageous work documenting the Mafia's stranglehold on her native Sicily was at once chilling and poignant, has died. She was 87.
Battaglia, who died in the Sicilian capital Palermo late on Wednesday, photographed the brutal Mafia wars of the 1980s and 1990s, showing political assassinations and dead bodies in pools of blood on sidewalks or abandoned on the side of a rural road.
