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    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
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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. Del 20N al 20D

    NOPHOTO

  3. 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? (...)

  4. 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 (...)

  5. Una breve historia:

    [3] CORSINO

    Jonás Bel

  6. 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”. (...)

  7. Cesma Ingenieros

    Engineering photographs

    Paco Gómez

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

  8. Materiales

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  9. Fueras Paraíso

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  10. Invisible Immigrants

    Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

    Paco Gómez

  11. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  12. 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 (...)

  13. This Temple Belongs to Whom?

    Feature. El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

    "Between 1998 and 2007 Pamplona's Archbishopric registered more than one thousand properties, among churches, houses and estates. We have visited Abaiz, a drop in the ocean of the controversial registrations (...)

  14. 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 (...)

  15. Portraits

    Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

    Carlos Luján

  16. 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 (...)

  17. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  18. Helsinki. La ciudad en el bosque

    Travel. Yo Dona

    Juan Millás

  19. Hidraqua

    Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

    Jorquera

  20. ¿What is DÚO?

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave + Juan Valbuena

  21. Sobre el once de marzo

    Video

    Eduardo Nave

  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. 10 years

    NOPHOTO

  24. Pontejos 9

    Rafael Trapiello

  25. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  26. 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.

  27. 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 (...)

  28. 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 (...)

  29. Road Guardians

    Feature. El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

    "Are you going to hit the road? 10 000 people monitor your movements. Night and day. By motorcycle, by patrol car, by helicopter, in the open-air or in the offices, (...)

  30. #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. (...)

  31. Making-of Salitre

    An experience of shared edition and photography.

    Juan Valbuena

  32. 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 (...)

  33. Ferran Adriá

    At the BulliLab

    Carlos Luján

  34. Una breve historia:

    [2] LA VIEJA GUARDIA

    Jonás Bel

  35. Against child mortality. Bolivia

    UNICEF and XL Semanal

    Carlos Luján

  36. PROYECTO K.

    Paco Gómez

  37. Fotografiar desde dentro

    Bienal Fundación Once

    Eva Sala

  38. 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 (...)

  39. SOLOVKI

    Un proyecto conjunto con Juan Manuel Castro Prieto

    Rafael Trapiello

  40. 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 (...)

  41. Nación Rotonda

    Rafael Trapiello

  42. Proyecto K.

    Book trailer

    Paco Gómez

  43. 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 (...)

  44. 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 (...)

  45. 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 (...)

  46. 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 (...)

  47. 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. (...)

  48. 2013

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  49. 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 (...)

  50. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  51. María's House

    Jorquera

  52. Una breve historia:

    [1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

    Jonás Bel

  53. 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 (...)

  54. 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 

  55. Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

    Eva Sala

  56. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

    19th Duke of Alba

    Carlos Luján

    Made for the International Herald Tribune

  57. 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 (...)
  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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