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

I remember

Juan Santos

First-person book on memory, identity, oblivion and loss. Ed. Phree 200 X 150 mm, 72 pages, Digital Offset, Hardcover. Design: Juanjo Justicia (Underbau) y Juan Santos. ISBN 978-84-940288-4-7

Materiales

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

10 years

NOPHOTO

Red Bull Music Academy

Rafael Trapiello

Against child mortality. Bolivia

UNICEF and XL Semanal

Carlos Luján

Hidraqua

Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

Jorquera

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 (...)

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 (...)

Portraits

Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

Carlos Luján

PROYECTO K.

Paco Gómez

Una docena de higos

Carlos Sanva

Fueras Paraíso (You Were a Paradise)

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

Five years after 2013, Bel and Trapiello have returned to carry out another documentary project. This new project is also one year long and is similar in scope to “2013”. (...)

2013

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

Una breve historia:

[1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

Jonás Bel

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 (...)

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 (...)

Express train to the heart of Asia

Travel. Marie Claire

Juan Millás

Silver Road. A journey by train in Central Asia. 1 200 km of railways drive the visitor to mythical cities such as Bukhara, Khiva and Samarkand. Feature published in (...)

Namo Buddha

Eva Sala

Fototaxia

Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

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 (...)

#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. (...)

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 (...)

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.

Praga y Budapest

Travel. Yo Dona

Juan Millás

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 (...)

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 (...)

Una breve historia:

[2] LA VIEJA GUARDIA

Portraits made for the XL Semanal magazine