Lina Pallotta

An Italian documentary photographer born in 1955 in San Salvatore Telesino (BN), Lina Pallotta moved to New York in the late 1980s where she received her diploma in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the Center of Photography. Her fierce motivation to make a difference drew her to the underground scene, to subcultures, to Mexican women, to underdogs, to tell stories that normally don't get told. Her most notable works include Porpora e Valerie (2013) and BASTA – To Work and Die on the Mexican Border (1999), on the lives of Mexican women who work in border factories. Her work has been shown in personal and collective exhibits in Europe and the United States and published in national and international magazines.