A favela é, um problema social

Collusion between armed drug gangs and so called security forces in Brazil, inspired a French artist to use photography to bring the attention of the world to the Rio de Janeiro favela or shanty town where the violence took place. Brazilian soldiers were arrested after the killings of 3 men by a rival drug gang. The men were detained by the soldiers and brought to a rival drug gang's shanty town where they were shot dead.The subsequent outcry from the people of the favela resounded with the artist who in response took photographs of their faces, and plastered the photos on the walls of the shanty town and places of interest in Rio de Janeiro.