Santa Muerte

The L.A. home of a Mexico-based sect that attracts people on the margins, such as drug traffickers and transgender prostitutes.  Unsurprisingly, according to a photographer who has documented worship at the shrine (not the one who shot the photos in the slideshow), 'Southern California's version of the practice may contain "a little shtick"'.


LATimes: Santa Muerte in LA: A Gentler Vision of "Holy Death"