Licitra is a photographer and author living and working in Milan. His work appears in art and architecture magazines, including Domus for which he has photographed and interviewed Merz, Pistoletto, Adams, Katz, and Cartier-Bresson. In 1978 he worked with Agnetti on Machiavelli 30 in which the text is intersperced with photographic images. He has taken part in many photographic exhibitions including in 1990, a solo exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara.