22 images Created 8 Nov 2023
Benito Coda, his legacy
Benito Coda was a news photographer who passed away in July 2024. I met Benito many times since I was a teenager and wanted to become a photoreporter. I would pass his studio based in Battipaglia, South of Italy and would stop by and ask tons of questions. Over the years, when I took up the same profession, I would continue to meet with him. I became more and more fascinated by his extraordinary historic collection of images of whole generations of local people. Photographs that he took as a news reporter during the Second World War in Italy and overseas. He has left an abundance of archival images of the city of Battipaglia, and images that weight on the history of Italy. He also left behing tons of images that were never collected by customers. He had a collection of these set aside which utterly fascinated me. Here I share some of the photographs I took of him in his studio in Battipaglia, taken in 2021 to 2023.