'' Rocinha favela , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil '' Lived in and photographed the largest gang-occupied favela in Rio de Janeiro before pre-World Cup pacification in 2011 . Smith went on to publish a book about the project called '' Favela da Rocinha , Brazil '' and then re-entrenched himself in the slum for weeks at a time during the following three years to document the post-World Cup streets as the gangs slowly took back control of most of Rocinha 's alleyways . '' Goma , Congo '' Embedded himself for seven weeks inside the United Nations peacekeeping mission in North Kivu , the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Photographed life on the streets of Goma , capital city of the ongoing Congo Wars that have taken the lives of more than 5.4 million since the Rwanda Genocide in 1993 ; also photographing life in the infamous Mugunga refugee camp on the flanks of Mount Nyiragongo volcano
Rwanda Genocide
Rwandan genocide
Gary Mark Smith