Tag: Patrick Tombola

Inside El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ | TIME

El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’

Warring gangs have turned El Salvador into one of the world’s deadliest places

via Time: https://time.com/3966900/el-salvador-gangs-violence/

Italian photographer Patrick Tombola, who took the photographs on these pages, has been documenting this year’s surge in bloodshed, spending time with the police, gang members and families on the front line

January 10, 2020
Patrick Tombola – Not Free to Be Young | LensCulture

Not Free to Be Young – Photographs and text by Patrick Tombola | LensCulture

In El Salvador, the time of youth—between the ages of 12 and 25—is also one of the most dangerous

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/patrick-tombola-not-free-to-be-young

It depicts the Salvadorian youth as they try to carve out spaces of normalcy for themselves amidst a rising tide of gang-related violence. But the pictures also depict the young gangsters themselves, who are trapped in a life that will either lead to being jailed—or killed.

September 30, 2015