30.Abr.14
57º world press photo: (daily life - stories) - 1º prémio
THE LAST OUTFIT OF THE MISSING
10 August 2013
Date Found: 1 February 2013.
Time: 15:00.
Location: outskirts of Apopa, San Salvador.
Gender: male.
Age: between 15 and 17 years old.
Time of disappearance: approximately one year previously.
El Salvador has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, much of it gang related. In many cases, the only way of identifying murder victims is by clothes they were buried in.
STORY
NATIONALITY:
El Salvador
ABOUT:
Fred Ramos, born in 1986, lives and works in El Salvador. He studied graphic design, but began practicing photography in 2005. Currently, Fred is a staff photographer for El Faro.