The girls of Mexicana and my gaze (NSFW)

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Nude girl at the window. Alex Coghe

My perception of erotic photography is an intimate look at the beauty of everyday life, of gestures, of those tender and exciting moments. For my erotic photography I don't need girls who wink at the camera.

These are moments of intense expressiveness of the naked female body, in which my gaze lingers like a spectator who does not intervene. It is an ecstatic and objective contemplation at the same time. More than stories, they are fragments and atmospheres that I am interested in capturing with my lens, in which the sublime moment materializes in that slight suggestion, in a fantasy that reveals itself in detail. Enjoy my work.

The MEXICANA project led me to photograph many girls between 2014 and 2015. It was a professional experience that gave me a lot of satisfaction. Measuring myself with erotic photography was at first a challenge and then it turned into something for which I feel inclined. To the point that I teach courses in this type of photography.

The thing that I think is fundamental is always to deviate from what is the nude photography that often has quite vulgar examples. In my photography I believe he is capable of evoking a transcendent aspect of intimacy. It's also not something to do with overly explicit photos or not - that's not the point. Rather, it is a conscious photographic research that leads me to translate certain mental states and atmospheres that can be encountered, as in a metaphysical reading of everyday life.

With my photos I want to evoke the well-being that you feel in being naked at home, of those relaxed moments and in which the world disappears to leave room for your being, for the sensations that that moment suspended in time generates. Moreover, I would be really dissatisfied if they were considered only photos of naked women because this is not how I contemplated my photography.

For this reason the girls are normal, they are not models, and therefore beautiful in my eyes. I don't want models, I want real women and girls. I want to capture a portion of normality.

This is what I also propose to my clients.

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