100Eyes Magazine – Chrisitna Poveda Tribute

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French photojournalist and documentary film maker Christian Poveda was murdered on September 3rd in El Salvador, as he drove back from filming in La Campanera, a poor, overcrowded suburb and a 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.”

This essay by Nanni Fontana is presented as a tribute to Poveda’s work, and the essay by Carlos Lopez-Barillas that follows intends to initiate a discussion on the changing landscape for documentary journalists.

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