1. We are
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    2. en
    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Carlos Sanva
  1. Projects
  2. Exhibitions

Founded in 2005, NOPHOTO is a contemporary photography collective that aims to make UNCONVENTIONAL individual and collective projects viable.

The collective is characterized by its open content, an interdisciplinary thread in its forms, the use of multiple supports such as the web and digital projections when distributing projects, and the personal involvement of its members during the creative and production process.

NOPHOTO takes negation as its starting point. NOPHOTO is not an agency of photographers, but an ATTITUDE. A way of seeing. A revolution. A ‘NO’ (where there’s never enough).

This aesthetic attitude makes NOPHOTO not renounce any kind of creation or exhibition. Works by the collective offer an experienced view of the everyday, which always leads to the extraordinary. This process is the result of group reflection and interaction among alternative creative processes.

“It’s not that we like to take the opposing view; it’s that we enjoy walking slowly, clumsily, observing minute differences between things, discovering their rhythms. Trying to describe an object, turn it on its head, comb its surroundings and cover the entire perimeter. Asking ourselves what it’s made of and what role it plays in the story. Demanding of ourselves that we wear the subject out and still haven’t said anything. Demanding of ourselves that we look closely and yet haven’t resolved anything. Not to illustrate, define or take photographs. We like to unphotograph things and unname them.”

NOPHOTO was awarded the Revelación Award 2006 by the PHotoEspaña International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts.

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This is the size of a motor block for “almost” a motorbike. To be a motorcycle and not a moped, an engine must have a cylinder of 50 cubic centimeters or more.

This project links the practically unrelated concepts of the moped and adolescence in the Iberian Peninsula. The moped (almost a bike) is the minimal means of transportation approved by current traffic regulations. In the same way an adolescent (almost an adult) in transit towards maturity begins to be recognized by the rest of society as a socially independent being.

The moped underscores the proximity of entering into adulthood, opens up possibilities for mobility allowing youth to distance themselves from the family epicenter with autonomy, acts as a catalyst for social relationships generating a feeling of belonging to a specific group, and redefines public space in a spontaneous, relational context particular to the group.

  1. Sugarfree

  2. Una docena de higos

  3. Unweight

    Brief essays on eternity

  4. Supermen

  5. Numbers

  6. Superficial approaches

    Towards a topology of the group
  1. We are a Collective of Photographers
    1. NOPHOTO
    2. NOPHOTOVOZ
    3. Jonás Bel
    4. Paco Gómez
    5. Jorquera
    6. Carlos Luján
    7. Juan Millás
    8. Eduardo Nave
    9. Eva Sala
    10. Juan Santos
    11. Carlos Sanva
    12. Rafael Trapiello
We are located on
Conde de Vistahermosa, 3. Local A
28019. Madrid
T. +34 915 652 945
info@nophoto.org
0-49-20170206
Diseñado y desarrollado por Julio César González