How One Crime Scene Photographer Waged a War of Awareness

What is it about the Italian mafia? Despite their well-documented violence, cruelty, drug dealing and corruption, mobsters both real and fictional, from Al Capone and the ‘Dapper Don’ John Gotti to The Godfather and Tony Soprano, have been romanticised and even glorified in mainstream media. Within the American imagination in particular, organised crime has taken on a patina of respectability: rather than thugs, mafiosi are the well-dressed enforcers of order in a world in which the…