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Christian Poveda, a prominent French filmmaker and photojournalist who spent years chronicling the lives of El Salvadorian gang members, has been found dead—possibly the victim of his subjects.
Poveda first came to El Salvador in the 1980’s, to photograph the country’s civil war for Time. He returned in the 1990’s to document its gritty gang life, and in 2008 produced the acclaimed documentary La Vida Loca (Crazy Life).
To see Poveda’s haunting portraits of El Salvadorian gang members, whom he called “victims of society,” click here. For more of his work, click here.
