Enrique Metinides
We at Recuperate have loved Enrique Metinides photographs ever since stumbling across him in a copy of the Autumn 2003 issue of Baby Magazine.
Enrique Metinides shot the gruesome accidents and murders of Mexico City for nearly fifty years. The pictures of the Mexican tragedy photographer tell more about those watching as those who are involved in the situation.
He has had far too many opportunities to contemplate his own death. His pictures, he insists though, have nothing to teach us about fate.
He says he has never thought twice when it came to helping someone. “Once, I was in a Red Cross ambulance with a person who had been stabbed,” he recalled. “I realized that he was suffocating. I took him and helped him to sit and put my back against his. He spat up and all my clothes were covered with blood, but this gesture saved his life, and he thanked me.”
Truly a special person with over fourty photos a week in Mexican papers like La Prensa we are sure his perfectly unique approach will be appreciated long into the future.
