With the powerful photo essay by Nanni Fontana serving as a tribute, and the essay by Carlos Lopez-Barillas that follows meant to provoke discussion, 100 Eyes Magazine celebrates the life and work of Christian Poveda.

Poveda was a French photojournalist and documentary film maker who was murdered on September 3rd in El Salvador, as he drove back from filming in a poor, overcrowded suburb and Mara-18 stronghold. Arrests were made this past week that a jailed Maras gang-leader, who had reportedly tried to extort money from Poveda, who had made a 2008 documentary about the gang named “La Vida Loca.”

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