How Lisetta Carmi Changed the History of Italian Photojournalism

“I was interested in people, the lives of human beings, especially the poor.”

Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1924, Carmi died in July at the age of ninety-eight in Cisternino, a small town in Puglia. She was an interpreter of humanistic photography in a literal sense. An artist who changed the history of Italian photojournalism, she exposed the public to discomforting social realities of marginalized communities.

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