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New Topographics One to One Workshop
Urban Landscape Between Objectivity and Poetry
This intensive one to one workshop is designed for photographers who want to explore the urban landscape beyond aesthetics and move toward a more conscious, structured vision.
Inspired by the legacy of the 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, this workshop moves across different approaches to the built environment. From the rigorous, documentary-driven method to a more metaphysical and poetic interpretation of space, the goal is to help you develop a coherent personal language.
This is an on demand workshop, fully tailored to you. Available in English, Italian, and Spanish.
What We Explore
Theoretical Foundation
We will study key authors and methodologies connected to the New Topographics movement and beyond, including:
Typological approaches and systematic documentation
Seriality and repetition
Neutrality versus interpretation
The role of distance and detachment
Human presence within structured environments
Color versus black and white in contemporary landscape practice
Editing as conceptual construction
We will analyze works by photographers such as Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore, Luigi Ghirri, GuidoGuidi and others whose work reshaped the understanding of urban and suburban space.
The objective is not imitation, but clarity. You will understand why certain formal decisions generate specific conceptual outcomes.
Practical Field Work
The practical part takes place on location. We will work in urban or suburban areas that allow us to observe:
Architecture and infrastructure
Transitional spaces
Peripheral zones
Anonymous or repetitive structures
Subtle human traces
You will practice both structured documentation and more interpretative approaches, learning how framing, distance, focal length, and light influence meaning.
We will also work on sequencing and editing, because the New Topographics approach is rarely about a single strong image. It is about building a body of work.
Format Options
You can choose between:
1 Day – 6 Hours
A concentrated experience combining theory, shooting session, and final review.
Ideal if you want a focused introduction or to refine an ongoing project.
2 Days – 12 Hours (6 hours per day)
A deeper immersion.
Day one focuses on theory and first field session.
Day two includes extended shooting, conceptual refinement, and a structured editing session aimed at building a cohesive mini-series.
This option is recommended if you are developing a long term urban landscape project.
1 Day – 6 Hours
650 USD
2 Days – 12 Hours Total
1,200 USD
The two day option offers greater depth and continuity in both shooting and editing.
Who This Workshop Is For
Photographers interested in urban and suburban landscape
Street photographers wanting to slow down and work more conceptually
Artists developing a structured long term project
Photographers seeking a stronger theoretical foundation
You will leave with:
A clearer understanding of different landscape methodologies
A set of images produced during the workshop
A structured direction for future work
A more conscious relationship between form and meaning
This workshop is not about collecting images.
It is about learning how to see the built world with intention.
About the Instructor
This workshop is guided by Alex Coghe, photographer and educator with over a decade of experience teaching photography internationally. Since 2011 he has developed a personal tuition method based on clarity, structure, and visual awareness.
His approach combines strong theoretical grounding with practical field experience. The goal is not simply to improve technical skills, but to help photographers understand why they make certain visual decisions and how those decisions shape meaning.
A significant reference within this workshop is his long term project AMERICANA, an exploration of contemporary landscape shaped by human intervention. The project investigates suburban environments, anonymous architecture, and the quiet tension between space and presence.
In 2020, AMERICANA culminated in his first solo exhibition in Mexico City, marking an important step in his research on the urban and peripheral landscape. That body of work represents a direct dialogue with the New Topographics legacy, interpreted through a personal and contemporary lens.
As an educator, he does not position himself as someone offering formulas. Instead, he works alongside the participant, helping refine perception, strengthen conceptual coherence, and build a disciplined way of seeing.
This workshop benefits from both his teaching experience and his active practice as an author. What you receive is not only theory, but lived methodology.
Urban Landscape Between Objectivity and Poetry
This intensive one to one workshop is designed for photographers who want to explore the urban landscape beyond aesthetics and move toward a more conscious, structured vision.
Inspired by the legacy of the 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, this workshop moves across different approaches to the built environment. From the rigorous, documentary-driven method to a more metaphysical and poetic interpretation of space, the goal is to help you develop a coherent personal language.
This is an on demand workshop, fully tailored to you. Available in English, Italian, and Spanish.
What We Explore
Theoretical Foundation
We will study key authors and methodologies connected to the New Topographics movement and beyond, including:
Typological approaches and systematic documentation
Seriality and repetition
Neutrality versus interpretation
The role of distance and detachment
Human presence within structured environments
Color versus black and white in contemporary landscape practice
Editing as conceptual construction
We will analyze works by photographers such as Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore, Luigi Ghirri, GuidoGuidi and others whose work reshaped the understanding of urban and suburban space.
The objective is not imitation, but clarity. You will understand why certain formal decisions generate specific conceptual outcomes.
Practical Field Work
The practical part takes place on location. We will work in urban or suburban areas that allow us to observe:
Architecture and infrastructure
Transitional spaces
Peripheral zones
Anonymous or repetitive structures
Subtle human traces
You will practice both structured documentation and more interpretative approaches, learning how framing, distance, focal length, and light influence meaning.
We will also work on sequencing and editing, because the New Topographics approach is rarely about a single strong image. It is about building a body of work.
Format Options
You can choose between:
1 Day – 6 Hours
A concentrated experience combining theory, shooting session, and final review.
Ideal if you want a focused introduction or to refine an ongoing project.
2 Days – 12 Hours (6 hours per day)
A deeper immersion.
Day one focuses on theory and first field session.
Day two includes extended shooting, conceptual refinement, and a structured editing session aimed at building a cohesive mini-series.
This option is recommended if you are developing a long term urban landscape project.
1 Day – 6 Hours
650 USD
2 Days – 12 Hours Total
1,200 USD
The two day option offers greater depth and continuity in both shooting and editing.
Who This Workshop Is For
Photographers interested in urban and suburban landscape
Street photographers wanting to slow down and work more conceptually
Artists developing a structured long term project
Photographers seeking a stronger theoretical foundation
You will leave with:
A clearer understanding of different landscape methodologies
A set of images produced during the workshop
A structured direction for future work
A more conscious relationship between form and meaning
This workshop is not about collecting images.
It is about learning how to see the built world with intention.
About the Instructor
This workshop is guided by Alex Coghe, photographer and educator with over a decade of experience teaching photography internationally. Since 2011 he has developed a personal tuition method based on clarity, structure, and visual awareness.
His approach combines strong theoretical grounding with practical field experience. The goal is not simply to improve technical skills, but to help photographers understand why they make certain visual decisions and how those decisions shape meaning.
A significant reference within this workshop is his long term project AMERICANA, an exploration of contemporary landscape shaped by human intervention. The project investigates suburban environments, anonymous architecture, and the quiet tension between space and presence.
In 2020, AMERICANA culminated in his first solo exhibition in Mexico City, marking an important step in his research on the urban and peripheral landscape. That body of work represents a direct dialogue with the New Topographics legacy, interpreted through a personal and contemporary lens.
As an educator, he does not position himself as someone offering formulas. Instead, he works alongside the participant, helping refine perception, strengthen conceptual coherence, and build a disciplined way of seeing.
This workshop benefits from both his teaching experience and his active practice as an author. What you receive is not only theory, but lived methodology.