Alex Coghe’s Street Photography Highlights 2026

Yes, 12 photos do the selection this month

2 “stolen” eye contact photos open the selection. 2 classic moments in the city in 2 different events. That means to reveal something of a place. The everyday is also about the identity of the place.

In the barrio. Identity and sense of community. This is my home.

Interesting moment. With the cross and the smoke. I don’t know if there is a story here, it is not my goal.

This month I've gone back to basics. I feel I need to do this to tell my story in my own way. I am a hunter with a camera.

Mirador. Point of view. Vision. Eyes. Glasses. That is.

In the morning I go and buy tamales. This is my fortune.

Oh, I love this shot. It is so beautifully unperfect. The kind of stuff you don’t see anymore. In the ugly world of current instaphotography.

I laugh while I take these kinds of photos. Because I layer, but as a hunter. With the wonderful awareness of being a hunter, that I don't sit around waiting. Here I am, I raise the camera, I shoot, and... I still find the layers.

Holy shit, how's this fucking 28mm vintage on the 5D?

Portrait of a Chinese man in a dressing gown.

What can I say? Here I am, in this new year. I take my own photography. And I'm happy about it. This month, black and white is the winner. I feel that certain street photography needs to be told this way. No, it's not a new fundamentalist choice. But this is how I feel now, and what I want to tell requires it.

Without really talking about cameras, I feel like I've stripped everything down to the most basic, and this translates into a better experience that leads me to take photographs, focusing on what really matters: only the image matters. And the result matters.

In my constant self-analysis, I've now realized that I shouldn't go against my nature. I'm a hunter. I am one in all my facets of photography, whether as a photojournalist, a portraitist, or a street photographer. This awareness is more important than you might think: because through it I also support the setting choices.

For those who want to know: yes, I've gone back to shooting directly in black and white, with my jpgs flattened to the point that we can talk about a sort of raw in jpg format.