These are images where Tina's lack of practice in this genre is noticeable with outoffocus photographs and the use of dimly lit lenses that are noticeable in light sweeps of people walking in broad daylight. Modotti would never feel comfortable with reportage or strictly photojournalistic genres. Portrait of Julio Antonio Mella Soon after Tina came into contact with Julio Antonio Mella a Cuban student leader who had arrived in Mexico and was determined to overthrow Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado. Mella was an athlete and had published the university magazine Alma Mater.
By January he became the leader of the student struggle for e-commerce photo editing university reform and founded the Federation of University Students he organizes and directs the First National Congress of Students. Their first contact was during the protest against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and then They met formally in June in the offices of El Machete They both liked each other immediately and lived together for a few months after meeting. The murder of Julio Antonio Mella and the downfall of Tina Modotti Tina's total misfortune occurred when she was walking arm in arm with Julio Antonio Mella down Abraham González Street in Mexico City on the night of January.
The Cuban student leader and revolutionary received two caliber shots one went through the left elbow and intestine and the second punctures a lung. The Cuban remains in the arms of Modotti. The police arrive and the Red Cross picks him up still alive. Finally after the surgery a doctor appears with an unflattering countenance the doctor laconically explains to the photographer that the body of the deceased will be taken to the Forensic Medical Service and that she is at the disposal of the Public Ministry the local prosecutor's office.