Metinides, Enrique
Self-taught, he began his career as an amateur photographer in 1946. As the dean of Mexican police photojournalism, he started documenting monuments, streets, and traffic accidents at the age of 12. During that time, he photographed criminals and deceased individuals at the Seventh Precinct in the Santa María la Ribera neighborhood of Mexico City. In 1948, he collaborated with the newspaper "La Prensa" as a police photojournalist, where he worked until 1996. In 1949, he became the first reporter in charge of the Red Cross information source and, the following year, an official rescuer. Thanks to this appointment, he had the scoop on the city's most tragic news. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad (MoMA PS1 in New York, PhotoEspaña, MoMA in San Francisco, and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis), as well as in solo exhibitions in the United States (Anton Kern Gallery in New York and Blum and Poe in Los Angeles).
