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. 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. Metinides, nicknamed El hombre que vio demasiado (The man who saw too much), died on 10 May 2022.
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12 February 1934 Mexico City, Mexico
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10 May 2022 (aged 88) Mexico City, Mexico
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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