MEXICO CITY.- The most extensive exhibition ever made of this red top photojournalist includes for the first time videos filmed by him while he photographed some accidents, images of his daily coverage, a selection of his more than 4000 toy collection; his first camera (a Brownie Junior his father gave him) which he took pictures with beginning at the age of 9.

The Man who saw too much...also includes some vintage works from his collection. With those some images taken in July 1952 of a shoot out between the PRI and PAN parties, events described by the writer Carlos Monsivais as one of the darkest and terrible moments in Mexico.

The public attending this showing will also find themselves with a 1952 Red Cross ambulance similar to the one found in a variety of Metinides' works, which for more than 50 years were red news; the dead, injured, natural catastrophes and suicides, an archive of tragic scenes which have made him a true onlooker of daily occurrences and chaos of the large metropolis of Mexico City.

A journey through the life decided to photography from 1946 through 2016 is what can be appreciated in the exhibition The Man who saw too much: Enrique Metinidies (1946-2016). 70 year career, gathers more than 120 images and whose curator is documentary film maker Trisha Ziff, director of films such as Chevolution (2008), The Mexican Suitcase (2011) and The Man who saw too much (a picture about Metinides himself, 2015); as well as Isabel del Rio.

This photographer was born in 1934 in Mexico City and worked as a red news photojournalist for more than 50 years, capturing assasinations, arrests, catastrophies and accidents in the capital. He remembers starting his work as a photographer at the age of 9, thanks to a gift his father gave him: a bag full of film an analog camera. The result was a boy who played taking pictures of crashed cars in front of the police station.

His camera, in turn, captured the tragedy in the city and managed to capture the poverty, negligence and corruption in an artistic manner. Even as a child he acheived front page in the newspaper The Press and as infancy is destiny, the photograph converted into his profession to this date.

Metinides has won numerous awards and received the recognition from Mexico's presidency, the Association of Journalist, Rescue and Judicial Corps and from Kodak in Mexico.

In 1996 he received the Mirror of Light award, awarded to the country's most outstanding photographer. His work has traveled the world including Museum of the America's, Madrid, Spain (2004), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2006), The Photographer's Gallery of London (2003), Rencontres D'Arles, (2011) and Aperture Gallery, New York (2012).

Some publications revolving around his work are: Enrique Metinides, The Theatre of the Facts, published by the Cultural Institute of Mexico City in 2000; Enrique Metinides. The Photographer's Gallery, edited in England by Ridginhouse in 2003; Enrique Metinides. Series, published in Germany by Komminek Books in 2011 and 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides, made by Aperture Books by Trisha Ziff in the USA in 2012.

The exhibition is on view at Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos.