Photo exhibition Enrique Metinides

     Enrique Metinides "The Boy" is a Mexican photographer (Mexico City, 1934) He is famous for his journalistic coverage of tragic events around the City.  From 1949 to 1979 he photographed numerous police incidents, natural disasters and traffic accidents with great artistic sensibility.

     Metinides worked as a photographer of events from 1948 until his retirement in 1979, having taken thousands of photos and captured hundreds of stories around Mexico City, such as crime scenes, car crashes and natural disasters.

     One of the most remarkable characteristics of his style is his obsession to go further with the morbidity and tragedy of the event, something that has catapulted his work as part of a visual culture that encourages the debate of what is conceived as art within crime reports.

      He has showed his photographs at Casa de América, Madrid; la Central de Arte Guadalajara; The Photographers' Gallery London and Anton Kern Gallery in New York.

     He has won numerous prizes and received recognition from the Mexican government,   journalists’ associations, rescue and judicial corps and Kodak of Mexico. In 1997 he received the “Espejo de Luz” (Mirror of Light) Prize, awarded to the country’s most outstanding photographer.

     On this occasion, in addition to the selection of photographs, there will also be a screening of his new documentary
 'The man who saw too much'.

Where?
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place,
Londres, SW3 3TD

When?
10 -24 February 2017

Website:
https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibitions/150/overview/
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