1. We are
    1. es
    2. en
    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Projects
  2. Chronicles
  3. Publications
  4. Videos
  5. Exhibitions
  6. Assignments
  7. Biography
  8. Workshops

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.

Here and Now

Instituto Cervantes + AECID
  1. Exhibition
  1. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Manchester, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Manchester, 2009
  2. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Manchester, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Manchester, 2009
  3. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Toulouse, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Toulouse, 2009
  4. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Toulouse, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Toulouse, 2009
  5. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Toulouse, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Toulouse, 2009
  6. Exhibition Here and Now. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, 2009
  7. Exhibition Here and Now. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, 2009
  8. Exhibition Here and Now. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, 2009
  9. Exhibition Here and Now. Office of the European Commission. Stockholm, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Office of the European Commission. Stockholm, 2010
  10. Exhibition Here and Now. National Library. Tallin, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. National Library. Tallin, 2009
  11. Exhibition Here and Now. National Library. Tallin, 2009
    Exhibition Here and Now. National Library. Tallin, 2009
  12. Exhibition Here and Now. Minsk, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Minsk, 2010
  13. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Dublin, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Dublin, 2010
  14. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Dublin, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Dublin, 2010
  15. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Dublin, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Dublin, 2010
  16. Exhibition Here and Now. Museum of Ideas. Lviv, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Museum of Ideas. Lviv, 2010
  17. Exhibition Here and Now. Museum of Ideas. Lviv, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Museum of Ideas. Lviv, 2010
  18. Exhibition Here and Now. Museum of Ideas. Lviv, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Museum of Ideas. Lviv, 2010
  19. Exhibition Here and Now. Prsten Gallery. Zagreb, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Prsten Gallery. Zagreb, 2010
  20. Exhibition Here and Now. Prsten Gallery. Zagreb, 2010
    Exhibition Here and Now. Prsten Gallery. Zagreb, 2010
  21. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Beijing, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Beijing, 2011
  22. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Beijing, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Beijing, 2011
  23. Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Beijing, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Instituto Cervantes. Beijing, 2011
  24. Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
  25. Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
  26. Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
  27. Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011
    Exhibition Here and Now. Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Rome, 2011

Here and Now is a collective project on documentary photography in contemporary Spain that deals with some common subject matters, both modern and long-standing, associated with our country—bars, motorbikes, religion, bulls, water, families, immigration—constituting thirteen projects created in the first person: Wives by Tanit Plana, Interior Seas by Paco Gómez, Peninsula by Juan Millás and Eduardo Nave, 49 cc. by Carlos Sanva, Afternoon of Bulls by Carlos Luján, Still Life by Juan Santos, Mother by Juan Valbuena, Litany by Eva Sala, Madrid Underground by Jorquera, Strangers by Matías Costa, New Families by Marta Soul, Vía de la Cruz by Iñaki Domingo and El Palentino by Jonás Bel.

Created, developed and produced by NOPHOTO, this project was presented at the Hubei Museum of Art in Wuhan, China, in 2008, and may be found in two traveling exhibits through Europe, Asia and Latin America throughout 2009. Instituto Cervantes and AECID host the exhibition with the following itinerary:

Manchester (United Kingdom). Instituto Cervantes. 04.03.09 - 15.04.09
Toulouse (France). Instituto Cervantes. 22.04.09 - 24.06.09
London (United Kingdom). Shoreditch Town Hall. 25.09.09 - 24.10.09
Stockholm (Sweden). European Commission Office. 13.01.10 - 29.01.10
Tallinn (Estonia). National Library. 09.02.10 - 02.03.10
Krakow (Poland). Pauza Gallery. 16.02.10 - 15.03.10
Minsk (Belarus). Dom Druzhby. 10.03.10 - 10.04.10
Vilna (Lithuania). Arka Gallery. 27.04.10 - 25.05.10
Dublin (Ireland). Instituto Cervantes. 14.05.10 - 21.08.10
Lviv (Ukraine). Museum of Ideas. 15.06.10 - 18.07.10
Zagreb (Croatia). Prsten Gallery. 16.09.10 - 30.09.10
Lyon (France). Instituto Cervantes. 28.10.10 - 27.11.10
Estambul (Turkey). Millî Reasürans Sanat Gallery. 8.12.10 - 31.12.10
Beijing (China). Instituto Cervantes. 22.01.11 - 10.03.11
Rome (Italy). Real Academia de España. 16.02.11 - 16.03.11
Shanghai (China). Council of Spain. 19.03.11 - 29.05.11
Copenhague (Denmark). Carlsberg Factory. 9.06.11 - 19.06.11
Aalborg (Denmark). Nordkraft Aalborg. 4.07.11 - 31.07.11
Rascafría (Spain). Rascafría City Hall. 8.08.11 - 21.08.11
Riga (Latvia). Riga Congress Centre. 4.10.11 - 23.10.11

  1. EL ÚLTIMO VERANO

    Vídeo

  2. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Nepalgunj

  3. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Namobuddha

  4. Vote for NOPHOTO

  5. Image Kamikazes

  6. Muta Matadero

  7. The alfa-SATURIO Experiment

  8. Cercanías

  9. A New World is Coming

  10. Retando a la suerte

    Thirteen curators, thirteen exhibitions and one collective

  11. We are a Cycling Team

  12. 20 Ways of Setting Up an Exhibition

  13. El último verano

  14. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

  15. Enfocadas

  16. Nocontainer
  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
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Diseñado y desarrollado por Julio César González