A postcard from the barrio and the censorship

In the past I already portrayed this guy:

Postcard from the barrio. Mexico City, 2024. Alex Coghe

And meta censored me, even giving me a month of ban from the social network. This time I fixed this way:

Once the problem has been contained, the question remains.

Because in these years of war we have seen a battalion exalted by calling it "good Nazis" which sounds like what it is: a big load of bullshit (they call it war propaganda). If it were limited to this... instead with the bullshit they first isolated us, divided us and then convinced us that the provocations of war are right, to the point that they are now leading us madly to a conflict that could become nuclear. And no one is doing anything to stop these madmen.

While the problem becomes a photo on a social network. Pure hypocrisy for the most hypocritical era that has ever existed.

About the photography i make

Photography is, for a documentary photographer, something that comes in between while life flows. In this way it becomes a part of it and you must be able to respond to requests, to solicitations to take a photo, while you are living. It is not something unrelated, disconnected from it, but rather photography is a way of entering life by walking through it through documents. The skilled documentary photographer is the one who manages to take good photographs that translate the experience of living in that given moment. Good photography, without forcing and overdubbing, sincere.

An invitation

What I feel like doing is an invitation. Avoid thinking in watertight compartments and creating mental barriers. While certain ideologies are to be condemned, you do not erase them from the world through censorship. Above all, do not accuse the photographer of fomenting a certain ideology, even accusing him of exalting and apologizing for neo-Nazi groups for simply doing his job, that is, taking photographs.

When I work I try to be free from judgment. I am a street documentary photographer. this is what I do. It's certainly not up to me to solve the world's problems. I just photograph what exists.

Today we live in the era of political correctness where you have to stay within certain codes or they censor and exclude you. The thought must be that and if you dare to challenge this you will find yourself in a situation of holy inquisition. This is the world that those who are interested in dividing to continue to govern have prepared for us.

As an anarchist I fight this. My political ideas are constituted by a strong sense of freedom and self-determination. My role as a photographer in the popular neighborhood where I live is a real presence. My photography is political for sure. It is focused on social issues, touching on themes such as sense of community, spirit of identity and resilience. Genuinely immersed in and with the pueblo.

meta and the other system control tools want to have us divided and controlled. I fuck that. Lets’ fuck that.

Anyway…

Flickr doesn’t censor like meta. I could publish my photo without censorship. Flick is a better place for photographers.

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