NOPHOTO. Colectivo de Fotografía Contemporánea

We are

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.

We are a Collective of Photographers

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

Huesca Memoria Colonizada

NOPHOTO

Materiales

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

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 (...)

Not Only Nudes

Eva Sala

Step by step inch by inch (...)

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”. (...)

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 (...)

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.

Invisible Immigrants

Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

Paco Gómez

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 (...)

Presentación de NOPHOTOVOZ en la escuela de fotografía LENS

Eva Sala

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 (...)

Hidraqua

Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

Jorquera

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? (...)

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 (...)

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

Portraits

Portraits made ​​for the XL Semanal magazine

Carlos Luján

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 (...)

Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

19th Duke of Alba

Carlos Luján

Made for the International Herald Tribune

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 (...)

Sugarfree

Carlos Sanva

Una breve historia:

[1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

Jonás Bel

SOLOVKI

Un proyecto conjunto con Juan Manuel Castro Prieto

Rafael Trapiello

10 years

NOPHOTO

Fueras Paraíso

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

#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. (...)

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 (...)

BCN Photem.

After Rauschenberg

Juan Santos

Portraits made for the XL Semanal magazine