Letizia Battaglia: "Against me cruelty. I am a feminist and I defend women."

Photographer Letizia Battaglia is speaking out for the first time after the very strong controversy caused by her shots for Lamborghini’s With Italy, For Italy - 21 views for a new drive campaign. In fact, the people of the net did not like the juxtaposition of little girls and luxury cars, misunderstanding the message of the campaign (which saw little girls as a symbol of rebirth and hope) and heedless of the typical elements of Letizia Battaglia’s art, which has always photographed little girls and young women.

Speaking to Rai News yesterday, Letizia Battaglia expressed her bitterness: “I have never seen anyone so affected, it’s strange, fellow photographers that I have always respected, women, feminists (I am a feminist, I am a woman and I defend women’s rights). It was very mean and very cruel: you can be wrong in understanding or interpreting.” The photographer then referred to the mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, who asked Lamborghini to withdraw the photographs: “Orlando did not interpret well or was misguided, however Orlando is not to be touched, he would be missed, Palermo must continue to be a civilized city. Of course, there are also some strange people, I don’t know why it went wild, maybe because I am a woman or because I am 85 years old, because I am successful maybe, and maybe at this age they would like the woman to be an old woman, I don’t know. I have this energy, I keep marching on it and this is my story.”

Letizia Battaglia then announced her intention to leave, as of January 1, the International Center of Photography in Palermo, the center based at the Cantieri Culturali della Zisa and one of the major hubs for photography in the South. A consequence of the wound caused by the controversy.

Letizia Battaglia: "Against me cruelty. I am a feminist and I defend women."

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