We are

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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A New World is Coming

Project

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JANUARY. NOPHOTO imagines a visual exercise to be carried out in a remote location.
一月。人生最重要的不是努力，不是奋斗，而是抉择。
FEBRUARY. It no longer matters who pushes the button.
二月。星星之火，可以燎原。
MARCH. A project in which each participant’s personal record dissolves to make way for collective authorship.
三月。人生能走多远，看与谁同行；有多大成就，看有谁指点。
APRIL. Commitment only provides two options: you’re either in or out.
四月。学识不如知识，知识不如做事，做事不如做人。
MAY. A team directs individual achievements toward corporate objectives.
五月。相信你看到的，坚持你承诺的，一定得到你想要的。
JUNE. It’s just a question of riding steadily in an uncertain direction.
六月。没有目标的人永远为有目标的人去努力。
JULY. The cyclists are a projection of the collective’s members.
七月。人之所以能，是因为相信能。
AUGUST. The image of a pack riding in a synchronised fashion is fairly similar to the process of collectively formalising an idea.
八月。征服畏惧、建立自信的最快最确实的方法，就是去做你害怕的事，直到你获得成功的经验。
SEPTEMBER. The route is a metaphor for the nature of the creative group experience.
九月。珍惜才会拥有，感恩才会天长地久。
OCTOBER. Improbably distant goals are only achieved during the process of reaching them.
十月。再长的路也要一步一步的走去，再短的路也只有迈开脚步才能到达。
NOVEMBER. Small poetic gestures are buried under the weight of reality.
十一月。没有做不到的，只有想不到的。
DECEMBER. Satisfactions on the margin of competition simply serve to keep on pedalling.
十二月。每一个成功者都有一个开始，勇于开始，才能找到成功的路。