Enrique Metinides, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Enrique Metinides

Mexican photojournalist

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1934

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Profession: photographer, journalist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides (born February 12, 1934 in Mexico City) is a Mexican photographer.
He began working with photography as a child when his father gave him a camera.
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, but since then his work has gained appreciated for its own merits, being exhibited in galleries and other venues in Mexico, the United States and Europe.