April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Natalie, 15, poses for a portrait near the soccer field she used to play on in her neighborhood of San Salvador. She had to quit soccer because she works nights and weekends now whenever she's not in school at a local mechanic shop. Several of her brothers are gang members and she says they live in constant fear that the family will be attacked by police. She says she fears the police more than any other gang. "I had a friend who was really pretty once. Karin. She was 15. A gangster wanted her but she rejected him. He took her one day. After that they found her dead. " She says she is afraid to leave her home a lot of the time. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Flowers in a gang controlled area of Mejicanos. (Natalie Keyssar)

April, 2017. Alejandro poses for a photo on the empty soccer field in his neighborhood of Zacamil. A stronghold of Barrio 18, the neighborhood is considered very dangerous primarily because of frequent police raids that have been alleged to target young people regardless of gang affiliation resulting in wrongful arrests and even deaths according to some residents. Alejandro runs a youth educational program in the barrio teaching art and music to children in hopes of pulling them out of the endless crossfire between the police and the gangs.

April 6 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. At an event put on by the Mayor in a gang controlled barrio, local skaters show off their skills. Skating and other cultural activities attempt to create a cultural space for youth that is not gang related. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 11 2017. San Salvador, El Salvador. A cemetery in San Salvador.

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Youth in a Barrio 18 controlled area make Alfombras, or sand paintings on the street, for an easter parade. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. 13 year old Kenya holds her pet parrots on her arm at her home outside of San Salvador. She has just moved to the new community of new cinder block 3 room houses built with church donations, because her old neighborhood where she lived with her brother and grandfather was too dangerous due to gang activity. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. An effigy of Judas hangs in the notoriously gang controlled neighborhood of Los Mejicanos, in Barrio 18 territory, the night before Easter Sunday. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 11 2017. San Salvador, El Salvador. A security guard poses for a portrait inside a gated residence.

April 1, 2017. San Salvador, El Salvador. School girls from left, Esmerelda Lissette, Fatima Basquez, Jennifer Gabriel Matamoros, and Alison Dyana Melendez, pose for a photo on a soccer field on Saturday morning after a school program.

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Wendy Morales, a well known social activist who teaches indigenous language and art spent 4 months incarcerated among gang members where she feared for her life. She was accused of extortion because of a used cell phone she bought on the street which was linked to a gang extortion case. When international organizations came to her aid to get her out of jail, she devoted herself to wrongful imprisonment and police abuse activism. (Natalie Keyssar)

March 12, 2017. New York City. A Flamenco dance company led by Olga Pericet performed Pisadas, a piece composed by the lead dancer that addresses feminism and avant guard themes in the 90 minutes piece.

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. A Salvadoran police officer's weapon bears the name of his country. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Young boys participate in a workshop on leadership and violence prevention organized by Wendy Gonzales in an at risk rural community called Tonatacapeque. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Daniela 12, only leaves the house to play soccer or go to school, otherwise her parents say its too dangerous. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Meibi poses for a portrait near the skate park in zacamil. She says despite not belonging to a gang she is subject to routine police harassment and can't leave the neighborhood because her address on her ID will make everyone think she's a gangster anyway. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Flowers grow over a murder scene in Colonia Londres. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 1, 2017. San Salvador, El Salvador. School girls pose for a photo on a soccer field on Saturday morning after a school program.

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Children play in a baby pool in gang controlled Zacamil. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. A Barrio 18 member in Zacamil shows scars from where he was shot by an enemy gang just blocks from his home which is near the dividing line. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. A baby pool in the heat of the day in Tonacatapeque San Salvador. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. The Mayor of San Salvador's security guard in Colonia Iberia. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Children look out the window at the scene of what police say was a gang assassination of a young women waiting for her daughter to get out of school. (Natalie Keyssar)

April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. A woman who police say was assassinated by gang members while waiting to for her child to get out of school. (Natalie Keyssar)