NOPHOTO. Colectivo de Fotografía Contemporánea

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.

We are a Collective of Photographers

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

Huesca Memoria Colonizada

NOPHOTO

BCN Photem

After Rauschenberg

Juan Santos

When we talk about cities, we are also talking about strata, layering, build-up of spaces, sounds and movements. Distillation of elements. Barcelona, one of the most known and recognized world (...)

Todas Direcciones

A5

Juan Santos

One road, headed out west. A mission. A trip with an unplanned route, but in a single direction. One srtarting point and different ending points, that never end in the (...)

State of Alarm

Quarantine diary

Rafael Trapiello

Península

Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

Can we look at the world from the same approach we use for the photography book? Is it possible to have a look to reality opening it in any part? (...)

2013

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

Ferran Adriá

At the BulliLab

Carlos Luján

Sugarfree

Carlos Sanva

Fotografiar desde dentro

Bienal Fundación Once

Eva Sala

Evictions

Dire escenes

Carlos Luján

Mari Carmen came back after running some errands when she found her husband’s dead body on the sidewalk. Fran had thrown himself into the void. He had lost ownership over (...)

Supermen

Carlos Sanva

Supermen is a meditation on the will of human power based on direct experience working with American pitbull terriers in controlled environments. Dogs are always subjected to human (...)

#anamnesis

Juan Santos

To preserve the light. Preserve the light instead of memory, that paradise, that harm. There is a misunderstanding between both realities: they are different, unable to live together, to blend. (...)

LEGAZPI UNDERGROUND

Jorquera

Te task is simple: photograph people entering the underground station of Legazpi in Madrid. From the same place, on the access steps, between seven and eight a.m.

BCN Photem.

After Rauschenberg

Juan Santos

When we talk about cities, we are also talking about strata, layering, build-up of spaces, sounds and movements. Distillation of elements. Barcelona, one of the most known and recognized world (...)

BCN Photem. After Rauschenberg

Juan Santos

When we talk about cities, we are also talking about strata, layering, build-up of spaces, sounds and movements. Distillation of elements. Barcelona, one of the most known and recognized world (...)

DÚO#01

On March 11th. Press

Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

A single-topic newspaper published now and then exploring and reclaiming the feature format by a writer and a photographer. DÚO 01 is about the 10 years that have passed since (...)

Album from the Earthquake

Jorquera

I found this album among the remains of what used to be a building. I would like to think that that woman was not at home on the day (...)

Mulberry Harbour

Normandie

Eduardo Nave

Three days after the D Day, two artificial ports with the code name “mulberry A and B” were towed five mile per hour through the English Channel and assembled in (...)

PROYECTO K.

Paco Gómez

Cesma Ingenieros

Engineering photographs

Paco Gómez

Since 1998, made photographs of the most unique projects designed by the engineering company Cesma Engineers in Madrid

Chinese Students

Jorquera

The goal: Learning English. The method: Memorizing by reading out loud. The problem: You are in China, and that means you will never be alone. Millions of people (...)

Invisible Immigrants

Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

Paco Gómez

Unweight

Brief essays on eternity

Carlos Sanva

Unweight reflects on the human tendency to reject the limitations of Being. To do so, I photograph blocks of stone marked by attempts at overcoming them. These signs certify (...)

María's House

Jorquera

THIS IS SPAIN

Book

NOPHOTO

Seven photographers from NOPHOTO collective work in different areas of Spain based on a deliberately exotic proposal: registering cultural, economical and political aspects of our country to elaborate afterwards a (...)

Materiales

Portraits made for the XL Semanal magazine