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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.

  1. Huesca Memoria Colonizada

    NOPHOTO

  2. 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 (...)

  3. Materiales

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  4. Salitre

    Juan Valbuena

    Project funded and developed by La Caixa Foundation and PHREE publishing-house. 1. Saline substance, particularly abundant in soil and walls. 2. When sailing, the mixture of sweat and salt (...)

  5. María's House

    Jorquera

  6. 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? (...)

  7. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  8. 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 (...)

  9. Fototaxia

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  10. Invisible Immigrants

    Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

    Paco Gómez

  11. Fueras Paraíso

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  12. 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 (...)

  13. Making-of Salitre

    An experience of shared edition and photography.

    Juan Valbuena

  14. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  15. PROYECTO K.

    Paco Gómez

  16. 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 

  17. Mahoudrid. Arquitectura e interiorismo

    Rafael Trapiello

  18. Nación Rotonda

    Rafael Trapiello

  19. The Last Residents

    Feature. El País Semanal

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

    "They live in isolated little villages, where they were left alone or where they went looking for freedom. They have peace of mind, but also poor roads and insufficient basic (...)

  20. Secundino Hernández: In October Ecstasy

    Rafael Trapiello

  21. Red Bull Music Academy

    Rafael Trapiello

  22. 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 (...)

  23. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

    19th Duke of Alba

    Carlos Luján

    Made for the International Herald Tribune

  24. 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 (...)

  25. 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 (...)

  26. Pontejos 9

    Rafael Trapiello

  27. Fotografiar desde dentro

    Bienal Fundación Once

    Eva Sala

  28. Handwritten Notes

    Eva Sala

    These photographs recreate a small gesture at a hospital in Madrid, in the aftermath of the 11-M terrorist attacks. The kitchen staff decided, spontaneously, to break with protocol and reach (...)

  29. 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 (...)

  30. Haruki Murakami. The Writer in his Labyrinth

    Interview. Marie Claire

    Juan Millás

    Juan Millás goes with Ray Loriga in a journey to Tokyo for an exclusive talk with one of the greatest and more elusive authors of our time. A quiet and (...)

  31. Hidraqua

    Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

    Jorquera

  32. Portraits

    Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

    Carlos Luján

  33. Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

    Eva Sala

  34. Ferran Adriá

    At the BulliLab

    Carlos Luján

  35. 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”. (...)

  36. 2013

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  37. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  38. 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 (...)

  39. Proyecto K.

    Book trailer

    Paco Gómez

  40. 10 years

    NOPHOTO

  41. Noray

    Juan Valbuena

    NORAY (origin unknown) Nautical  1. Bollard, a thick post on a ship of wharf, used for securing ropes and hawsers.  2. Smallest possible port.  3. Juan Valbuena´s favorite word.  4. (...)

  42. Helsinki. La ciudad en el bosque

    Travel. Yo Dona

    Juan Millás

  43. Del 20N al 20D

    NOPHOTO

  44. Somewhere in La Mancha

    Juan Valbuena

    A (re)construction of my family's visual memory and our relationship with the territory from where all of us come from, having as backdrop the history of Spain and the history (...)

  45. 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.

  46. 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 (...)

  47. Parece posible encontrar todavía algo por descubrir en el jardín

    Juan Millás

  48. 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 (...)

  49. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  50. Cesma Ingenieros

    Engineering photographs

    Paco Gómez

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

  51. Península

    Fotolibro

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  52. Solo vol. V

    Río Tinto

    Eduardo Nave

  53. Against child mortality. Bolivia

    UNICEF and XL Semanal

    Carlos Luján

  54. ¿What is DÚO?

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave + Juan Valbuena

  55. 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 (...)

  56. Publications

    Editorial assignments

    Juan Millás
  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
    13. Juan Valbuena
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