THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I was bare-handed, except for my camera, against them with all of their weapons.  I took pictures of everything. Suddenly I had an archive of blood.  An archive of pain, of desperation, of terror, of young people on drugs, of young widows, of trials and arrests.  There in my house, Franco Zecchin and I were surrounded by the dead, the murdered.  It was like being in the middle of a revolution.  I was so afraid.

Letizia Battaglia in Harris/Aperture, 2022