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Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides (born Mexico City, February 12, 1934) 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 1979 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. ==Life== Metinides was born in Mexico City and is of Greek heritage.〔 〕〔 〕 When he was ten years old, his father gave him a brownie box camera. Soon after, he began taking pictures of car accidents on the streets of the San Cosme neighborhood of Mexico City where he lived.〔 〕 He expanded this to opportunities found hanging around the police station, going to the morgue and becoming a Red Cross volunteer to ride with ambulances.〔 〕 He photographed his first dead body and published his first photograph when he was only twelve years old. At age thirteen, he became an unpaid assistant to the crime photographer at La Prensa, and gained the nickname “El Niño” (the boy) from the regular press photographers.〔〔 He retired in 1979 after being let go by La Prensa and no longer takes photos of live crime or disaster scenes.〔 However he has a collection of more than 10,000 miniature ambulances, fire trucks and figures of firemen and medics, which he has photographed in arrangements depicting emergency scenes. He also has a large collection of plastic frogs.〔 〕〔 He continues to reside in Mexico City.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enrique Metinides」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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