As a child Metinides was interested in gangster and crime movies so his transition into being a "Nota Roja" photographer, or a sort of crime scene photographer in Mexico, was very smooth. He uses his photographs to show the more grisly and aggressive sides of his homeland. He uses a very straight forward approach to composition (probably because he was and is shooting mostly for newspaper/tabloids) but the clean and unaltered simplicity of his photos is what makes them so strong.
I think a lot of my interest in these has to do with the subject matter. I think that these could be hideously and obviously disturbing, but Metinides uses his eye for composition and creates eerily beautiful pieces that not only show the brutality of the scene, but the characters within the scene. I appreciate that though a lot of crime scene photos and photographers tend to unforgiving and cruel, but there is a feeling that the Metinides is in each one of these works, and has a conscience about what he is doing.
There is a documentary on him, you should watch it if you haven't already
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