An independent editorial project by Alex Coghe, exclusive for photographers attending the STREET PHOTOGRAPHY IMMERSION
This is just a sample cover
I have been thinking about how a photographic experience can continue beyond the days spent photographing together. Street photography is an individual practice. We walk the same streets, encounter the same people and situations, but we rarely see things in exactly the same way. Every photographer brings a different sensibility, a different attention, a different way of responding to what happens around them. This is something I have always found interesting. And it is also the starting point of a new project I am introducing: IN PASSING, an independent street photography photozine created and edited by me.
Two Photographers. One City. Different Ways of Seeing.
IN PASSING will bring together photographs by me and by the photographers who participate in my Street Photography Immersion experiences. Following each experience, photographs made during our time together will be selected and brought into a dedicated digital issue. The idea is straightforward. We spend time in a city, walking, observing and photographing. We share the same environment, but we each respond to it in our own way. The resulting publication will bring these different perspectives together. I am interested in the dialogue between photographs, in the unexpected connections, and sometimes in the differences between two ways of looking at the same place.
There is no intention to make the work look uniform. Quite the opposite.
An Editorial Project, Not a Workshop Catalogue
IN PASSING is conceived as an independent editorial publication. It will not be a collection of workshop advertisements, a portfolio showcase or a conventional photography course supplement.
Each issue will be dedicated to a city and will contain a curated selection of photographs by both photographers. The editing and overall editorial direction will be handled by me. The purpose is to create a small photographic publication with its own identity, where images can exist together and tell something about a place, an experience and the people who photographed it.
Who Can Contribute?
This is the core of this editorial project. Participation in IN PASSING is reserved exclusively for me and for photographers who take part in my Street Photography Immersion experiences.
It is not an open submission platform, and photographs from external contributors will not be accepted. This is an important part of the project's identity. IN PASSING grows directly out of the time, photographic work and shared experience of each immersion. Every participating photographer will have the opportunity to be featured in the dedicated issue connected to their experience.
This is a brilliant way, in my opinion, to give strenght to my 3 days full immersion photography workshops, available in 7 cities in Mexico.
This creates a sense of responsibility, both for me, as a photo coach, to help achieve specific goals, and for the participant, by ensuring that the photographs they create won’t just end up sitting on a hard drive or being shared on social media, but will instead lead to an actual publication. In this way, the work produced during these three days of learning and enjoyment gains a tangible purpose, and it also allows me to engage with each participating photographer from an editorial perspective.
Free and Open Distribution
IN PASSING will be published exclusively as a digital PDF. Each issue will be available free of charge on my website, alexcoghe.com, and will be freely accessible for download and distribution.
Participating photographers will also be encouraged to share the original PDF through their own websites, social media and photographic networks. The idea is to let the photographs travel and reach people beyond the original experience.
There will be no printed edition.
The Beginning
IN PASSING is still at the beginning. There are no issues to download yet, and I prefer to let the project develop through the actual photographic experiences rather than rush its first publication.
I like the idea of creating something that grows naturally, one city and one photographic encounter at a time.
A small independent publication. Two photographers. A shared experience. Different ways of seeing.
IN PASSING.
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IN PASSING is an independent street photography photozine created and edited by Alex Coghe. Participation is reserved exclusively for Alex Coghe and photographers taking part in his Street Photography Immersion experiences.
If you are interested to be part of this project,I invite you to know all the details about my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY IMMERSION workshops. Click on the button down below.
