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

Fueras Paraíso

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

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 (...)

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 (...)

¿Por qué agoniza el gorrión?

El País Semanal

Juan Millás

Making-of Salitre

An experience of shared edition and photography.

Juan Valbuena

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 (...)

Una breve historia:

[1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

Jonás Bel

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 (...)

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 (...)

Red Bull Music Academy

Rafael Trapiello

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 (...)

At the time, in the place

Eduardo Nave

At the Time, in the Place is a documentary work where expressing tragedy acquires special importance in sound — the magnitude of volume and the intensity of suffering borne from (...)

España se hace la sueca

Feature. El País Semanal

Juan Millás

Feature on how life happens inside an Ikea store in Madrid. Feature published in El País Semanal, issue 1736. Sunday, January 3, 2010.

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.

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. (...)

Materiales

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

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

Proyecto K.

Book trailer

Paco Gómez

Fototaxia

Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

PROYECTO K.

Paco Gómez

Namo Buddha

Eva Sala

Nación Rotonda

Rafael Trapiello

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”. (...)

#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. (...)

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 (...)

DÚO#01

On March 11th. Press

Portraits made for the XL Semanal magazine