1. We are
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    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
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  6. Exhibitions
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  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. 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 (...)

  3. Ferran Adriá

    At the BulliLab

    Carlos Luján

  4. Mauritius Island

    Travel. Yo Dona

    Juan Millás

    "Mauritius was created first and then heaven; and heaven was copied after Mauritius..." (Mark Twain,  Following the Equator). Feature assigned by Yo Dona magazine on Mauritius Island -commercially known (...)

  5. Against child mortality. Bolivia

    UNICEF and XL Semanal

    Carlos Luján

  6. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  7. 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 (...)

  8. 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 (...)

  9. Materiales

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  10. Una breve historia:

    [1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

    Jonás Bel

  11. 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 (...)

  12. 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 (...)

  13. 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 (...)

  14. 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 (...)

  15. Chagas Disease Lash

    Feature. El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

    "Forgotten, but lethal. An illness caused by an insect, the Trypanosoma cruzi, “silently kills” the poorest in Latin America and appears in the developed world hand in hand with migration. (...)

  16. Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

    Eva Sala

  17. Cesma Ingenieros

    Engineering photographs

    Paco Gómez

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

  18. Fueras Paraíso

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  19. Invisible Immigrants

    Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

    Paco Gómez

  20. Fotografiar desde dentro

    Bienal Fundación Once

    Eva Sala

  21. 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 (...)

  22. 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 (...)

  23. Secundino Hernández: In October Ecstasy

    Rafael Trapiello

  24. ¿Por qué agoniza el gorrión?

    El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

  25. ¿What is DÚO?

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave + Juan Valbuena

  26. Una breve historia:

    [3] CORSINO

    Jonás Bel

  27. María's House

    Jorquera

  28. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

    19th Duke of Alba

    Carlos Luján

    Made for the International Herald Tribune

  29. 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 (...)

  30. 10 years

    NOPHOTO

  31. 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”. (...)

  32. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  33. 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 (...)

  34. Fototaxia

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  35. 2013

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  36. Pontejos 9

    Rafael Trapiello

  37. PROYECTO K.

    Paco Gómez

  38. Bosque fingido

    Proyección

    Juan Millás

  39. 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 (...)

  40. Nación Rotonda

    Rafael Trapiello

  41. Portraits

    Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

    Carlos Luján

  42. 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.

  43. Una breve historia:

    [2] LA VIEJA GUARDIA

    Jonás Bel

  44. Generación 'top'

    Fashion. Mujer Hoy

    Juan Millás

  45. Hidraqua

    Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

    Jorquera

  46. 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 (...)

  47. 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 (...)

  48. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  49. Making-of Salitre

    An experience of shared edition and photography.

    Juan Valbuena

  50. 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. (...)

  51. 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? (...)

  52. 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 (...)

  53. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  54. Proyecto K.

    Book trailer

    Paco Gómez

  55. #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. (...)

  56. 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 (...)

  57. Del 20N al 20D

    NOPHOTO
  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
We are located on
Conde de Vistahermosa, 3. Local A
28019. Madrid
T. +34 915 652 945
info@nophoto.org
0-49-20170206
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