Postcard from Peru: Boxing for a Dream

Postcard from Peru: Boxing for a Dream

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/postcard-from-peru-boxing-for-a-dream

The city of Callao is the main port of Peru, one of its most dangerous places, and also a major proving ground for many of Peru’s première boxers. “This sport has always been a window of opportunity for young people,” the photographer Sebastián Enriquez told me. “It is an area where many of the country’s youth learned to leave their problems in the ring and find a future by the glove.”