Life and crime in the Slums of Rio De Janeiro

Christ the Redeemer on the Corcovado mountain rises above a favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Action at the Funk dance, put on by drug traffickers in Vila Alianca, Rio Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Drug traffic "soldier" in Vila Alianca, Pastor Dione's district Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Director of photography, Lance Gewer, filming during Pastor Dione's church service Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Gewer filming during a police raid in Complexo do Alemao Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Torres enjoys one of his customary cigars during police raid in Complexo do Alemao Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Shacks beside railroad tracks where the church distributes bread Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

A boy looks at a bullet-riddled wall in the no-man's land area between two slums known as Vietnam. Police occupied the two slums after eight young people were kidnapped from one of them, allegedly by drug traffickers from a rival slum nearby Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

A worker displays a handful of stray bullets that hit the Bonsucesso hospital Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Police make an incursion into the Vila Cruzeiro slum. Life as one of Rio de Janeiro's 38,000 military police officers has never been an easy task, but a wave of police killings this year underlined the growing dangers Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Spiderman in his car Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Police carry a body down a stairway after a shootout Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto

Wagner, church member and former drugs boss, gives an interview after bread distribution near railroad tracks Photograph: Douglas Engle/Australfoto