Series

"Series" presents Enrique Metinides' iconic crime and disaster photography through a cinematographic lens, organizing 100 photographs—both color and black & white duotone—across fourteen thematic sequences.

The book examines works including "Explosion," "The Tower Suicide," and "The Lovers of Chapultepec," revealing how Metinides captures human reactions to tragedy: the faces and postures of survivors after their lives have been fundamentally altered. The sequential arrangement transforms tabloid images into a compassionate documentation where survivors become the focus rather than sensationalism. Metinides' fifty-year career documenting Mexico City's tragedies reveals the city's juxtaposition of mechanical brutality, opulence, and poverty.