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Enrique Metinides

Mexican photographer (1934–2022)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Metinides and the second or maternal family name is Tsironides.

Enrique Metinides

Metinides in 2017

Born

Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides


(1934-02-12)12 February 1934

Mexico City, Mexico

Died10 May 2022(2022-05-10) (aged 88)

Mexico City, Mexico

OccupationPhotographer
Known forStreet photography of crime scenes or emergencies

Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides (12 February 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Mexican photographer.

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

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Soon he began taking photos imitating popular action movies and car crashes near his father's restaurant. He published his first photo in a newspaper when he was twelve and at age thirteen, became an unpaid assistant at La Prensa. His career as a crime photographer continued until 1997 when he retired, bu Crime and Tragedy on the streets of Mexico City KEDOJ