It goes without saying that to excel as a crime scene photographer, one has to have the guts to shoot macabre circumstances, in addition to the usual photo-taking skills. Celebrated Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides has a surplus of this hardiness, thanks in part to some exposure to bloody situations in his youth. After getting his first camera, he took pictures of crashed cars near his father’s restaurant. Metinides, born in 1934, soon found himself tagging along with police officers who frequented his father’s restaurant when there a crime scene.
Metinides became a published photographer at the young age of 12. At 13, his unmistakable talent earned him a spot at the newspaper La Prensa. From 1948 until his retirement in 1997, Metinides took photos of numerous crime scenes, natural disasters, car crashes and at least one suicide attempt. The gripping narrative contained in his photos, made possible by his masterful composition of them, made him a renowned photographer, with his works later gracing gallery walls in Mexico, the US and Europe.
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Some of Metinides’s works are currently on view at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London. The exhibit will run until March 24.
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