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Los Angeles, 2011 / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Los Angeles, 2011 - © Alex Coghe

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Mexico City, 2011 / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Mexico City, 2011 - © Alex Coghe

 
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Mexico City, 2011 / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Mexico City, 2011 - © Alex Coghe

 
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The Hat / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

The Hat - © Alex Coghe

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Mexico City, 2010 / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Mexico City, 2010 - © Alex Coghe

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Subway, Mexico City / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Subway, Mexico City - © Alex Coghe

Nany Beat / Nude  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Nany Beat - © Alex Coghe

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Mexico City, 2011 / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Mexico City, 2011 - © Alex Coghe

 
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This is Street Photography / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

This is Street Photography - © Alex Coghe

 
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Jurassic / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Jurassic - © Alex Coghe

Poles / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Poles - © Alex Coghe

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Mexico City, 2019 / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Mexico City, 2019 - © Alex Coghe

Pink / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Pink - © Alex Coghe

Starbucks / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Starbucks - © Alex Coghe

A street photographer self portrait / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

A street photographer self portrait - © Alex Coghe

Faith / Nude  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Faith - © Alex Coghe

Que Viva Mexico! / Street  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Que Viva Mexico! - © Alex Coghe

Blue Demon / Nude  photography by Photographer Alex Coghe ★10 | STRKNG

Blue Demon - © Alex Coghe

2021-07-05 14:59 
Juarez / Street / mexico,streetphotography
Juarez
Pieces / Street / mexico,streetphotography
Pieces
Tepito / Street / streetphotography,mexico
Tepito
Girl / Street / outoffocus,streetphotography
Girl
Gelatine / Street / streetphotography,mexico
Gelatine
Corner / Street / streetphotography,mexico
Corner
Zocalo / Street / streetphotography,mexico
Zocalo
Flag / Street / streetphotography,mexico
Flag
Existence / Street / streetphotography,mexico
Existence

Street Photography Core

Street Photography, the good street photography is something that documents, that communicates something about a moment captured by the photographer, and therefore also reveals something about the author of the photo. A good street is a revealing moment, a sublime dichotomy of the ES and the world around it, or at least the perceived one. For this you have to be demanding, with the moment caught, if there is true content or not, if there is a composition worthy of this definition, if the street is genuinely represented and without forcing and overdubs, and therefore communicating that energy that only the street is able to reveal.

I photograph on the streets everyday. This makes myself a street photographer. And when you are a street photographer, you are another type of photographer, no matters if you make also other things, as I do as photojournalist and commercial photographer. You will know that the Street Photographer approach is always ready to come out.

After all these years making photos on the streets of Mexico, Italy and US I can see how I am grown up in the awareness that the experience on the street made me a different photographer. And a different human too.

As a street photographer I learned how gear is important to make your work, but I don't have the fever to purchase all the cameras and the lenses. The GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) was never really something to me and for my photography. All over these years I could work with several cameras and lenses, some purchased, mostly loaned. I have experience with film and digital cameras, APS-C and Medium format, compact cameras. Anytime to me is not about having a geek approach to photography. There are guys knowing anything about technical issues of any camera on the market. I really don't care about that. As I writer for me a pen is important because it is an instrument allowing me to write. For photography is almost the same.

But, of course I have my preferences: I work most of the time in popular barrios. And I spend a lot of time on the street. I just need compact, light and no flashy cameras. I love to work with analog point & shoot like my Olympus Stylus and Nikon L35. But I love also my Rangefinder Yashica Electro GSN. For digital currently I am using a Fujifilm XPro2 and a Fujifilm XT10. I purchased a manual lens: the 7Artisans 25mm f1.8. It is a great lens in my opinion with great color rendering, but you have to learn to work with because it is not accurate and often can become capricious, demanding. I think they build the lens focused on the bokeh...and this makes anything more complicated. Especially for a street photographer. Anyway you can have an idea with the photos on this post.

I want to create something useful for the STRKNG community on this blog, and I thought that this theme can be inspiring for other photographers.

The Street Photography Core to me is not about making perfect pictures. Photography in my opinion is a matter of content and form. It is fundamental that there is a good balance between content and form. Street Photography can't be reduced to visual jokes, or even worst the optical effects we are seeing often today on instagram.
And Street Photography is an imperfect activity that lives of randomness. If you are focused on capturing the energy on the street, you almost don't care anything is perfect on the frame. It is more important that a certain photo with certain elements inside the frame works. It is more important to be able to have a photograph with a content, showing the intent of the photographer, giving something of the documentation of the human condition. Something that you want to observe, possibly more than the time of a scroll of your mouse, something that you want to have as a print and maybe hanging on the wall at home.

The selection of the photos here present certain elements that are typical of my approach. It is imperfect photography that is perfect to me. One for all, look at the out of focus in the foreground of the girl picture. I would obtain that. I photographed her passing by because if I stopped myself in front of her, to frame and pressing the shutter button I would have lost that expression: maybe she would turn or smile, or react but I just wanted that expression. I can remember that exactly the day before I had gazed in awe at the portrait of a woman completely out of focus. I knew what I wanted and that leaving the lens at some distance would not have her in focus.

This is the Street Photography Core: to know the technique is OK if you can master it even to take an imperfect photograph, your personal photography.



Past Events


Archive 28.10.2022

Day of the Dead Photography Expedition 2022  

The 8 days Photography Expedition in Oaxaca with Alex Coghe during the traditional celebrations of Day of the Dead.

Friday, 2022-10-28 12:00h - Friday, 2022-11-04 12:00h

Oaxaca de Juarez

Mexico / North America

Tuition in English, Italian, Spanish language.

Max. 8 students.

DEADLINE INSCRIPTIONS: SEPTEMBER 30TH

THE COST INCLUDES: accommodation in a private house, travel in and out of Oaxaca de Juarez with private van, breakfast, tuition, e-books, certificate, exclusive print, professional portfolio review, mentoring program.

For more info, please contact me by sending me an email to: [email protected]

PLEASE NOTE: The workshop complies with the recommended health provisions and respecting the safety of each participant.

INSCRIPTIONS: https://alexcoghe.com/shop/p/day-of-the-dead-photo-expedition





Event created by Alex Coghe / 2022-05-29 18:10:27


Link: Friday, 2022-10-28 12:00h - Friday, 2022-11-04 12:00h / Day of the Dead Photography Expedition 2022| The 8 days Photography Expedition in Oaxaca with Alex Coghe during the traditional celebrations of Day of the Dead.


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Day of the Dead Photography Expedition / Travel / travel,oaxaca,mexico,day,of,the,dead
Day of the Dead Photography Expedition
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Archive 01.01.2022

Casting Call in Mexico. Hairy girls wanted.  

For a particular editorial projects going against common places

Saturday, 2022-01-01 10:55h - Thursday, 2022-01-20 10:55h

Mexico City

Mexico / North America

Call for models. New artistic editorial photography project. Looking for Hairy girls/women in Mexico City to model for me. Against the stereotypes and cliche on beauty.
After I realized in 2014 the editorial project Mexicana I want to create a new project that defies the clichés of commonly accepted and imposed beauty.

For this artistic portrait project I am looking for women with body hair. Portraits may or may not include nudes, the model decides. Hair on arms, legs, armpits, pubis, face. It is a project that aims to propose something far from the stereotypes and aesthetic impositions of society and I am looking for girls who are motivated and free of problems with this issue. The project wants to be also an empowerment message of the woman, not depending by constraints imposed by society.

The project will take in account the psychology and the desire to get involved in each model, in order to propose a varied and multi-faceted work. For this reason it can include nude or no and it can be simple portraits, nude/erotica, fashion with a provocative approach.

Each work with a model is not related to others, however I want to combine this work with several models to present it on my page and maybe put together a printed book and an exhibition. In accordance with each model we can also carry out interviews and video recording.

The project in general is with TF agreement: to the model I offer the photos of the session / sessions with resolution for the internet use.

Info: [email protected]

I suggest sending a motivational letter with some photos that show you have body hair.

In case you are selected, prepare for a video call and eventually sign a model release.There is no age limit to participate except that of being over 18 years old.

Call always open





Event created by Alex Coghe / 2021-12-29 18:05:21


Link: Saturday, 2022-01-01 10:55h - Thursday, 2022-01-20 10:55h / Casting Call in Mexico. Hairy girls wanted.| For a particular editorial projects going against common places


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Hair Casting Call / Portrait / hairy,portrait,mexico,models,casting,call
Hair Casting Call


Archive 28.12.2021

Get Featured on THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER NOTEBOOK  

We pay you a percentage on sales of the copy with your work featured

Tuesday, 2021-12-28 07:55h - Saturday, 2022-01-15 07:55h

Mexico City

Mexico / North America

THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER NOTEBOOK proposes a magazine with 1 or 2 photographers per issue. It is dedicated to Street Photography. The editorial project has been offically launched in 2015.
The magazine is proposed as printed and electronic edition.
We pay a percentage on sales between 20% and 40% per any copy sold with the work of the photographers featured.
The focus of the magazine is STREET PHOTOGRAPHY.
To get familiar with the kind of works we usually feature please download for free 2 copies here:

https://alexcoghe.com/shop/p/the-street-photographer-notebook-issue-70

https://alexcoghe.com/shop/p/the-street-photographer-notebook-issue-65


How to submit your work:

Use wetransfer, dropbox or wesendit.

Images max dimension of the camera;

Include biography/Artist Statement;

Include your website or instagram/flickr/facebook;

Remember to indicate your paypal address if interested in a monographic issue;

Send to [email protected]



Organizer / Participants: Photographer Achim Katzberg / Photographer Streetmax21

Event created by Alex Coghe / 2021-12-27 15:04:27


Link: Tuesday, 2021-12-28 07:55h - Saturday, 2022-01-15 07:55h / Get Featured on THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER NOTEBOOK| We pay you a percentage on sales of the copy with your work featured


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Coves issue 85 / Street / streetphotography,magazine
Coves issue 85


Archive 28.10.2021

Day of the Dead Photo Expedition 2021 in Oaxaca (Mexico)  

An 8 days experience in the south of Mexico

Thursday, 2021-10-28 16:00h - Thursday, 2021-11-04 10:00h

Oaxaca de Juarez

Mexico / North America

The classic 8 days Photography Expedition in Oaxaca with me during the traditional celebrations of Day of the Dead.

Tuition in English, Italian, Spanish language.

Max. 8 students.

DEADLINE INSCRIPTIONS: SEPTEMBER 30TH

THE COST INCLUDES: accommodation in a private house, travel in and out of Oaxaca de Juarez with private van, breakfast, tuition, e-books, certificate, exclusive print, professional portfolio review, mentoring program.

Please contact me by sending me an email to: [email protected]

I will send you the brochure of this experience.

PLEASE NOTE: The workshop complies with the recommended health provisions and respecting the safety of each participant.

You can join here:

https://alexcoghe.com/shop/p/day-of-the-dead-photo-expedition



Organizer / Participants: Photographer Alex Coghe



Event created by Alex Coghe / 2021-09-26 17:46:37


Link: Thursday, 2021-10-28 16:00h - Thursday, 2021-11-04 10:00h / Day of the Dead Photo Expedition 2021 in Oaxaca (Mexico)| An 8 days experience in the south of Mexico


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Crowd / Documentary / dayofthedead,oaxaca
Crowd
dance / Documentary / oaxaca,diademuertos
dance
Oaxaca / Documentary / diademuertos,oaxaca
Oaxaca
Dance 2 / Documentary / diademuertos,mexico,oaxaca
Dance 2
Catrina / Documentary / diademuertos,woman,flash,oaxaca,mexico
Catrina
Smile / Documentary / oaxaca,mezcal,man
Smile
Kid / Documentary / portrait,oaxaca,kid,diademuertos
Kid


Archive 28.06.2021

Call for Street Photographers  

Get featured on SHOOTR magazine

Monday, 2021-06-28 08:00h - Saturday, 2021-07-10 08:00h

Gustavo A. Madero

United States of America / North America

SHOOTR is a new magazine featuring the work of street photographers worldwide. It is a printed and electronic edition magazine. It is published on alexcoghe.com
We don't pay the photographers featured because is a collective features magazine, but it can be an opening opportunity to get an invitation to THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER NOTEBOOK where we pay the featured photographers.

https://alexcoghe.com/shop/p/shootr-street-photography-magazine-issue-0

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

https://alexcoghe.com/contact



Organizer / Participants: Photographer Alex Coghe



Event created by Alex Coghe / 2021-06-28 15:03:04


Link: Monday, 2021-06-28 08:00h - Saturday, 2021-07-10 08:00h / Call for Street Photographers| Get featured on SHOOTR magazine




Alex Coghe


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Street Photographer and Photojournalist.
Street Photography Workshops and Expeditions in Mexico.
Portrait, Erotica, Fashion.

I am an Italian documentary photographer based in Mexico. In 2013 I worked on assignment for Leica Camera AG, realizing the documentary project “People of Chapultepec” published worldwide in the Leica X brochure. My work in Mexico is focused on the documentation of human conditions in the barrios, popular neighborhoods of Mexico City and I collaborate with some NGO in Oaxaca. Currently my work is represented by Polaris Images and LatinPhoto.

As a Street Photographer I work everyday on the streets. My commitment is to spread the culture of street photography and since 2014 I am publisher of THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER NOTEBOOK, a printed and electronic edition magazine. I pay the photographers featured.

As a photo coach my street photography workshops in Mexico count with students coming from any part of the world.

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