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    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
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  4. Publications
  5. Videos
  6. Exhibitions
  7. Assignments
  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.

  1. Huesca Memoria Colonizada

    NOPHOTO

  2. Sicilia

    Cuaderno de viaje

    Rafael Trapiello

  3. 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.

  4. Secundino Hernández: In October Ecstasy

    Rafael Trapiello

  5. A grove of trees from a point of view

    Juan Millás

    This project is an imaginary proposal on the origins of landscape and the beginning of the gaze. As background for the work, we have chosen a forest in Côtes d’Armor (...)

  6. 2013

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  7. 10 years

    NOPHOTO

  8. Mahoudrid. Arquitectura e interiorismo

    Rafael Trapiello

  9. Silenced Land

    Eduardo Nave

    "Silenced Land" is a reflection on the muteness and mutilation that starts when vulneration takes place between the vital relationship between man and natural surroundings. It is a portrayal of (...)

  10. Una breve historia:

    [1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

    Jonás Bel

  11. ¿Por qué agoniza el gorrión?

    El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

  12. PROYECTO K.

    Paco Gómez

  13. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  14. Fotografiar desde dentro

    Bienal Fundación Once

    Eva Sala

  15. 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 (...)

  16. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  17. 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 (...)

  18. 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 (...)

  19. Against child mortality. Bolivia

    UNICEF and XL Semanal

    Carlos Luján

  20. 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.

  21. 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”. (...)

  22. 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 (...)

  23. Materiales

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  24. Fueras Paraíso

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  25. Proyecto K.

    Book trailer

    Paco Gómez

  26. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  27. María's House

    Jorquera

  28. Red Bull Music Academy

    Rafael Trapiello

  29. 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 (...)

  30. 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? (...)

  31. Napolae

    Juan Santos

    Naples is a whole world, and if you try to photograph a whole world, you will be doomed to failure. With just one camera from another time and a film (...)

  32. Fototaxia

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  33. 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 (...)

  34. 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 (...)

  35. 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 (...)

  36. 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 (...)

  37. Cesma Ingenieros

    Engineering photographs

    Paco Gómez

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

  38. Hidraqua

    Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

    Jorquera

  39. Del 20N al 20D

    NOPHOTO

  40. Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

    Eva Sala

  41. 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 (...)

  42. State of Alarm

    Quarantine diary

    Rafael Trapiello

  43. 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 (...)

  44. Solo vol. V

    Río Tinto

    Eduardo Nave

  45. Ferran Adriá

    At the BulliLab

    Carlos Luján

  46. Invisible Immigrants

    Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

    Paco Gómez

  47. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  48. Portraits

    Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

    Carlos Luján

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

    Juan Millás

  50. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

    19th Duke of Alba

    Carlos Luján

    Made for the International Herald Tribune

  51. #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. (...)

  52. 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 (...)
  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
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Conde de Vistahermosa, 3. Local A
28019. Madrid
T. +34 915 652 945
info@nophoto.org
0-49-20170206
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