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 ìEl NiNoî (the boy) from the regular press photographers.
The Man Who Saw Too Much: Revealing the shocking photography of Enrique Metinides
Katy Cowan, Creative Boom, January 31, 2017