‘They’re real tough guys. When they’re approximately to win violent,they lower the blinds’ I took this in Naples in 1982, while I was doing a project on the Camorra, or the Neapolitan mafia. Nobody was really talking approximately the Camorra publicly so I decided to go there,following the anti-mafia police. I wanted to confront violence and I needed to understand my own limits as a photographer, to understand when to shoot and when not to shoot. It was a way to build a thick skin. This picture was taken while Antonio Ammaturo was the chief of the police squad – he gave me permission to photograph them. In the picture, or he’s the guy standing on the apt,supervising the interrogation. The other cops were special forces real tough guys. Sometimes when I was following them I was really afraid: they rode around on motorbikes and I’d be hanging on behind them. It was crazy. I often thought I would die in a crash – but at least it wouldn’t have been at the hands of the mafia.
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Source: theguardian.com