1. We are
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    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Projects
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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. 10 years

    NOPHOTO

  3. 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”. (...)

  4. ¿What is DÚO?

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  5. María's House

    Jorquera

  6. 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 (...)

  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. Península

    Fotolibro

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  9. Del 20N al 20D

    NOPHOTO

  10. #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. (...)

  11. Ferran Adriá

    At the BulliLab

    Carlos Luján

  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. Invisible Immigrants

    Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

    Paco Gómez

  14. 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 (...)

  15. Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

    Eva Sala

  16. Una breve historia:

    [2] LA VIEJA GUARDIA

    Jonás Bel

  17. 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: (...)

  18. Red Bull Music Academy

    Rafael Trapiello

  19. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  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. Portraits

    Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

    Carlos Luján

  22. Materiales

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  23. 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 (...)

  24. The Amazing Women of Yen Bai

    Feature. Yo Dona

    Juan Millás

    Vietnam has an equivalent area to half of Spain by it doubles our country in number of inhabitants, which turns it into one of the most populated countries in the (...)

  25. 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 (...)

  26. Mahoudrid. Gastronomía

    Rafael Trapiello

  27. Proyecto K.

    Book trailer

    Paco Gómez

  28. PROYECTO K.

    Paco Gómez

  29. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  30. Bosque fingido

    Proyección

    Juan Millás

  31. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  32. Hidraqua

    Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

    Jorquera

  33. Fueras Paraíso

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  34. 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 (...)

  35. Una breve historia:

    [3] CORSINO

    Jonás Bel

  36. 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 (...)

  37. 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 (...)

  38. 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.

  39. Against child mortality. Bolivia

    UNICEF and XL Semanal

    Carlos Luján

  40. Una breve historia:

    [1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

    Jonás Bel

  41. 2013

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  42. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  43. 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 (...)

  44. 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 (...)

  45. 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? (...)

  46. Fotografiar desde dentro

    Bienal Fundación Once

    Eva Sala

  47. 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 (...)

  48. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

    19th Duke of Alba

    Carlos Luján

    Made for the International Herald Tribune

  49. Fotoensayo "A grove of trees from a point of view”

    El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

  50. 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 (...)

  51. 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 (...)
  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
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