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

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 (...)

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 (...)

Fotografiar desde dentro

Bienal Fundación Once

Eva Sala

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 (...)

Nación Rotonda

Rafael Trapiello

Carlos Fitz-James Stuart

19th Duke of Alba

Carlos Luján

Made for the International Herald Tribune

Pontejos 9

Rafael Trapiello

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 (...)

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”. (...)

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 (...)

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.

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 (...)

Invisible Immigrants

Spaniards in the US (1868-1945)

Paco Gómez

Ferran Adriá

At the BulliLab

Carlos Luján

Del 20N al 20D

NOPHOTO

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 (...)

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 (...)

Solo vol. V

Río Tinto

Eduardo Nave

2013

Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

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

Mahoudrid. Gastronomía

Rafael Trapiello

The Last Residents

Feature. El País Semanal

Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

"They live in isolated little villages, where they were left alone or where they went looking for freedom. They have peace of mind, but also poor roads and insufficient basic (...)

Hidraqua

Servicio municipal de aguas de Orihuela

Jorquera

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 (...)

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 (...)

Evictions

Dire escenes

Carlos Luján

Portraits made for the XL Semanal magazine