Lisetta Carmi. A Soul on the Road

Daniele Segre and photographer Lisetta Carmi first met in Ravenna in January 2009 for a monographic exhibition on the photographer, who is originally from Genova. Some months later Lisetta wrote a letter to Daniele and invited him to Cisternino, in Puglia, where she has been living for the last forty years. She wanted to tell him the story of her life. On that occasion, Lisetta took out of her archives all her photos, told the film director about them.
Lisetta had an incredible life. She was born on february 15, 1924 in Via Sturla 15 in Genova in a middle-class Jewish family; the Genoa of intellectuals and artists in the Sixties with which she began her activity as a photographer, the transvestites, the dockers, the eroticism and authoritarianism of the monumental cemetery of Staglieno, the travels to document the world, the fulminant photographic encounter with Ezra Pound.
Lisetta Carmi is one of the most important photographers in Italian and international history.
Her shots, her works passionate about her and in contrast with the society of the Sixties and Seventies have marked the art world to this day.