1. We are
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    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Projects
  2. Chronicles
  3. In progress
  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. Una breve historia:

    [2] LA VIEJA GUARDIA

    Jonás Bel

  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. Proyecto K.

    Book trailer

    Paco Gómez

  4. Las dos vidas de Marinaleda

    Rafael Trapiello

  5. Against child mortality. Bolivia

    UNICEF and XL Semanal

    Carlos Luján

  6. ¿What is DÚO?

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave + Juan Valbuena

  7. 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 (...)

  8. Portraits

    Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

    Carlos Luján

  9. 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 (...)

  10. Dubrovnik. La posibilidad de una isla

    Travel. Yo Dona

    Juan Millás

  11. PROYECTO K.

    Paco Gómez

  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. Valley of Freedom

    Feature. El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

    Photo feature on where the novel “Inés y la alegría”, by Almudena Grandes, takes place. The most important armed event after the Spanish Civil War took place in Val d'Arán: (...)

  14. 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 (...)

  15. Making-of Salitre

    An experience of shared edition and photography.

    Juan Valbuena

  16. 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? (...)

  17. Ferran Adriá

    At the BulliLab

    Carlos Luján

  18. Hidraqua

    Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

    Jorquera

  19. #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. (...)

  20. 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 (...)

  21. 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 (...)

  22. 10 years

    NOPHOTO

  23. 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. (...)

  24. AZCA o el Rockefeller Center de Madrid

    Reportaje (texto y fotos) para la revista VICE

    Rafael Trapiello

  25. Del 20N al 20D

    NOPHOTO

  26. Puerto Rico on the road

    Travel. Yo Dona

    Juan Millás

    A five-day tour by car around the island of Puerto Rico. Yo Dona nº194. January 17, 2009.

  27. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

    NOPHOTO

    Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada (Vegaviana Colonized Memory) is a NOPHOTO project aimed to get closer to the settlement phenomenon and to the birth of a new collective memory. Using photo, video, (...)

  28. 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 (...)

  29. Fototaxia

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  30. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  31. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  32. FACTORÍA DE OFICIALES

    Reportaje para XL Semanal

    Jonás Bel

  33. 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 (...)

  34. Cesma Ingenieros

    Engineering photographs

    Paco Gómez

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

  35. 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 

  36. María's House

    Jorquera

  37. Invisible Immigrants

    Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

    Paco Gómez

  38. Una breve historia:

    [3] CORSINO

    Jonás Bel

  39. MVP9

    Rafael Trapiello

  40. 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.

  41. 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 (...)

  42. La segunda ruta de Don Quijote

    Reportaje para el Magazine de La Vanguardia

    Rafael Trapiello

  43. 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 (...)

  44. 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 (...)

  45. Chefs & Decoradores

    Gastronomy & Deco. Hola Cocina

    Juan Millás

  46. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  47. Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

    Eva Sala

  48. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  49. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

    19th Duke of Alba

    Carlos Luján

    Made for the International Herald Tribune

  50. DÚO

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave + Juan Valbuena

    Single-subject newspaper issued unpredictably which explores and defends the feature format developed by a writer and a photographer. This publication provides both authors unusual working conditions in media: time and (...)

  51. 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 (...)

  52. Red Bull Music Academy

    Rafael Trapiello

  53. Fotografiar desde dentro

    Bienal Fundación Once

    Eva Sala

  54. Una breve historia:

    [1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

    Jonás Bel

  55. Madrid

    Travel. Marie Claire Belgium

    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
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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