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Alex Coghe: photojournalism and “gonzography” between two continents

YESTERDAY I WAS AT THE BIKE WORKSHOP IN PROGRESO NACIONAL AND I MADE 2 PORTRAITS

The mechanic is the man on the right. I needed the modification of my MTB: by removing the gearbox the bike gains in lightness. Here in the city there are not go up and in any case I prefer a single speed bicycle. I do the rest pedaling. The mechanic is reliable, honest and cheap: I am happy to have found him. I recommend you if you live in the north side of Mexico City. 

El mecánico es el hombre de la derecha. Necesitaba la modificación de mi MTB: al quitar la caja de cambios, la bicicleta gana en ligereza. Aquí en la ciudad no hay muchas subidas y en cualquier caso prefiero una bicicleta de una sola velocidad. Yo hago el resto pedaleando. El mecánico es confiable, honesto y barato: estoy feliz de haberlo encontrado. Se los recomiendo si viven en el lado norte de la Ciudad de México.

SOME SHOTS MADE DURING A FREESTYLE RAP BATTLE IN MEXICO CITY

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El fotoperiodista italiano con sede en México Alex Coghe le propone un taller de fotografía compartiendo sus técnicas de fotografía documental.
La inmersión, la empatía y la observación son claves en el enfoque de Alex. Este taller es una introducción para aquellos dispuestos a aprender sobre documental y fotoperiodismo. Siempre enfocado en capturar las mejores fotos, icónicas y útiles para comprender el lugar y el tema a través de la paciencia y la persistencia. Alex lo llevará paso a paso a través de sus fotos y su experiencia como fotógrafo de documentales sociales y noticias de última hora, y le enseñará cómo contar una historia a través de fotografías. Esta clase es ideal para aspirantes a reporteros gráficos y fotógrafos documentales que buscan inspiración, y para todos los que buscan consejos esenciales y hábitos zen para documentar el mundo que los rodea.

SI SE INSCRIBEN A LOS DOS TALLERES PAGAN 1800 PESOS EN LUGAR DE 2000 PESOS

Mexico – COVID19: La gente compra su comida en el mercado de Progreso Nacional en el dia que Hugo López-Gatell, Subsegretario de Salud, informó sobre el inicio de la Fase 3 por coronavirus en México. Esto significa que habrá una progresión acelerada de contagios. / People filling the local market in Progreso Nacional during COVID19 © Alessio Coghe

If you have a question or requests regarding a photo journalistic coverage, purchasing/licensing images, or you are an editor or publisher and this is a time-sensitive request, please drop me an email to: alex@alexcoghe.com If you are inquiring about booking me for a lecture, conference, interview general inquiries or other public engagement, please use the same email.  Unless I have requested that you call me, email is the best way of getting in touch.

Are you representing a NGO and you are interested to talk about a collaboration opportunity? Do you have some story that you would like to be shared internationally? Please, contact me.

THIS IS A DIFFICULT PERIOD FOR ALL. BUT IT IS ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY AND PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE. I PROPOSE YOU THIS COURSE.

NON PERDETEVI QUESTO APPUNTAMENTO. DOMANI SERA ALLE ORE 21, SU INSTAGRAM.

Questo l’annuncio di Emanuele Cassina:

Come annunciato nell’ ultima diretta, non prendete impegni martedì 24 marzo h 21 in diretta su IG @cassinafineart con un’ospite speciale!
Onorato di poter avere una conversazione / salotto tra me e il bravissimo fotografo Fotocronista nonché Ambassador Fujifilm: ALEX COGHE
www.alexcoghe.com
Parleremo liberamente di Fotografia dando dei consigli anche per delle letture fotografiche da approfondire in questi giorni di quarantena.
Avrete possibilità ovviamente di interagire!
Un occasione unica per poter conversare liberamente con un fotografo di questo calibro.

Potrete intervenire facendomi le domande che vorrete. Passiamo un’ora insieme distraendoci da questo brutto periodo, parlando della cosa che più amiamo: la fotografia!

E vi ricordo che mi trovate anche su instagram:

@alexdiegocoghe

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2 PHOTO EXPEDITIONS AND A PERSONALIZED ONE O ONE EXPERIENCE

You can count with my experience as a photojournalist working in Oaxaca for breaking news and social documentary projects, including assignments for NGOs. Also this year the proposal in Oaxaca is pretty interesting or those wishing to live a unique experience. 

With INSIDE OAXACA, an experience that can be one o one or for smal groups (up to 5) we will go in places away from the classic tourist routes, with the opportunity to bring home an absolutely valuable photographic documentation work to enrich your portfolio. Check out here:

THIS YEAR HAS BEEN SPECIAL IN MANY WAYS TO ME

This year my project AMERICANA dominated  my activity on the streets of Mexico City and EDOMEX. The project has been exhibited on February at the Kolkata International Photography Festival, was published in September with 8 pages on the magazine CITIES curated by Angelo Cucchetto and has inspired 2 special workshops for Fujifilm Mexico. I am currently working to my first solo exhibition that will take place in Mexico City, February 2020 in a special location in the heart of the city.

This year I have made two photographic expeditions in Oaxaca. During the Guelaguetza Photo Expedition in July I achieved to work again with the NGO Puente a la Salud Comunitaria, for an assignment in the Mixteca region. A selection of that reportage has been featured on Mexico Desconocido. The Day of the Dead Photo Expedition in Oct./Nov. has sold out with registrations from Italy, UK, US. During this photo expedition I leaded the workshop in English, Italian and Spanish language.

This year is important because I’m celebrating ten years as a professional photojournalist. On May one of the agencies I am collaborating with, LatinPhoto made me Photographer of the Month.

I started a new editorial project: PHOTOGRAPHY ART COLLECTION will be a curated printed book, presenting a selection of photographers from around the globe.

I joined Loculars in order to offer special experiences in Mexico and Italy for documentary photographers,

This is also the year that I created my new website:

http://fotocronista.com/

I connected my activity even more with some humanitarian/social themes. We helped a family in Oaxaca and I hope to make something more in future, maybe starting from the Inside Oaxaca social documentary workshop scheduled in February: help me to make word of mouth.

This year I sold many prints, books, printed and electronic editions and I paid several photographers to be featured on my magazines. I written a lot of articles for my blogs, but also for a magazine in a official collaboration. 

The general feeling is that anything has improved this year. I would be happy to confirm this in 2020. I want to do more for other people, for photographers and local communities. I always try to make something that is not just about me, this is a personal commitment that I took very seriously.

PLEASE NOTE: IN THIS ARTICLE THERE ARE PHOTOS OF IDENTIFIED CHILDREN. I WILL NOT REVEAL WHERE I TOOK THE PICTURES FOR THEIR PERSONAL SAFETY. 

Sometimes photos and words are not enough to describe how much pain you feel. Me and my wife we stopped when we have see these children and we offered to them some bread and peanuts, just the things we did have with us. We would like to do more for them.

I don’t believe photography will change the world. Photography has just an important mission: to change you, to raising awareness and denounce certain situations to make them clear.

HEY, I LOVE WHAT I AM DOING!

You know, as a photographer I am what Mario Dondero defined a “concerned photographer”, so for me photography is expecially about social issues and presenting themes useful to society. I am a photojournalist, but never been focused on blood & violence. I just uploaded my submission to the World Press Photo. And this is a set of 10 photos from my committed work for Puente a la Salud Comunitaria, already part of the work has been published by Mexico Desconocido:

But today I want to present you one of the recent photos made with a C200 roll and my plastic point & shoot Nikon L35. It is a funny moment I have seen to the pyramids of Teotihuacán. Nothing special but yet revealing what photography can be sometimes. Because sometimes I break away from being serious and I just want to have fun with my camera. To make this with film adds salt to the game.

PHOTOGRAPHY IS ESSENTIALLY MEMORY.

There are 3 shots made recently that brought me back to memories of my childhood, and I am proposing them in this post.

I always analyze my experience in life and photography is a great tool for this. Photography is an action aimed at maintaining memory, but while we are doing it we are in the present and we register the present, and this consideration is fascinating. Also because while I’m working, I often make visual references to things I’ve experienced in my life, events that are even quite distant in time.

The reference in this case was to me and to my brother, to the summers of carefree, of bicycle races, the spirit of adventure, the fantasy that generated even more adventures, to the simplicity of the things that through our games transformed the fantasy into reality.

The fact that I didn’t really know where I was while making these pictures helped to abstract the scenes and mix them into my childhood memories.

A photographer sells his work. No question about this. I never believed in art as a masturbatory act. But there are sales, and there are SALES. If you get what I mean…

When it happens that a great and respected photographer like Jochem Jay Schmidt buys you a print is another kind of sale. It is a real honor and so nice to see one of my photos hanged in the wall of his studio!

Even more, let me say, because this photograph is part of my social documentary work realized in my neighborhood and with a particular, heartbreaking story. I achieved to help that family thanks to the support of LATINPHOTO, one of the agencies I work with. You can appreciate the work made on my new website:

http://fotocronista.com/familia-gutierrez

This is something I believe a lot: photography with a real humanitarian focus. And when photography can help to make something concretely useful at a social level it becomes a milestone in your career, much more than any award you can obtain. And then all the positive comes you back like in this case!