13 Facts About Enrique Metinides

Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides was a Mexican photographer.

Enrique Metinides began working with photography as a child when his father gave him a camera.

Enrique Metinides published his first photo in a newspaper when he was twelve and at age thirteen, became an unpaid assistant at La Prensa.

Enrique Metinides expanded this to opportunities found hanging around the police station, going to the morgue and becoming a Red Cross volunteer to ride with ambulances.

Enrique Metinides photographed his first dead body and published his first photograph when he was only twelve years old.

Enrique Metinides worked as a crime photographer from 1948 to his forced retirement in 1997, taking thousands of images and following hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City such as crime scenes, car crashes, and natural catastrophes.

Enrique Metinides's work was principally published in the "nota roja", sections and event whole journals characterized by crude text and sensationalist photography dealing with violence and death.

Enrique Metinides retired in 1997 after being let go by La Prensa and no longer took photos of live crime or disaster scenes.

Enrique Metinides is seen with her eyes still open and wedged between two telephone poles.

Enrique Metinides is freshly made up and her hair styled, on her way to a press conference on her latest book.

Enrique Metinides' aesthetics are derived from popular film of his era, especially black-and-white action movies related to police and gangsters.

Enrique Metinides's art, if we can call it that, is a catalogue of death and suffering in all its random, often absurd everydayness.

Enrique Metinides's work has won prizes from the Mexican government, journalists' associations, rescue and judicial organizations, and Kodak of Mexico.