PhotoBooks Italy - Sicily

Letizia Battaglia’s story, her unique vision of Sicily, and her fight for justice against the Mafia as revealed in this biographical monograph are as stunning as they are heroic.

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Introduction by Sandra Phillips, Afterword by Anna Roma. Sicily: a land of mystery and myth. Inspired by stories told by his mother's family, famed documentary photographer Thomas Roma left his native Brooklyn for Sicily in search of his roots in 1977. Photographing abroad on a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roma spent months at a time over the next fourteen years traversing the island, challenging himself to connect with a culture and a lifestyle completely foreign to his experience as a New York City street photographer. In Sicilian Passage, Roma taps into the timeless essence of Europe's agrarian past. His photographs of the familial homeland are untainted by stereotypical notions of Sicilian culture. Instead of old ladies in black veils gossiping on the stoop, Roma's images are lyrical odes to the country pastoral. Through his lens, we are transported to another land where nature and the climate have tamed its inhabitants into a slower rhythm: gnarly ancient trees grow haphazardly in the crop fields; marble ruins erupt fromt he hillsides; shirtless young shepherds tend to their flocks under a ruthless Mediterranean sun. Sicilian Passage is an ode to the mysteries of the timeless in "The Island In The Sea Of Light."

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