1. We are
    1. es
    2. en
    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. “A grove of trees from a point of view”

    Museo del Romanticismo

    Juan Millás

  2. Normandie: Les rivages du débarquement

    CAF. Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía. Almería

    Eduardo Nave

  3. THIS IS SPAIN

    CaixaForum Madrid

    NOPHOTO

  4. Design of Exhibition Display

    Photo Exhibitions

    Paco Gómez

    Assignments carried out from 2007 on design of exhibition display for photographers and cultural institutions.

  5. Aptitud para las armas

    Carlos Sanva

  6. Los Modlin

    Huesca

    Paco Gómez

  7. Las tres emes máginas

    Madrid

    Paco Gómez

    Exhibit on the American surrealist painter Margaret Marley Modlin in AVA Gallery Madrid in March 2007. For the first time, the paintings could be seen together with photo studies found (...)

  8. Razón y sed

    Saragossa

    Paco Gómez

    Collective exhibit, together with photographers Ana Muller, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Martí Llorens. Sponsored by the College of Road Engineers, the exhibit was held at Sástago Palace in Saragossa (...)

  9. Supermen

    Carlos Sanva

  10. La república No Fotos

    Tenerife

    Paco Gómez

    Exhibit of declassified images of the No Photos Republic in La Caixa’s Headquarters in La Laguna within the FotoNoviembre03 Festival.

  11. Project K.

    Bratislava, Slovakia

    Paco Gómez

    “Proyecto K.” exhibit in the Slovenian city of Bratislava within the Fotofo Festival, October 2003

  12. Project K.

    Sala Amadís, Madrid

    Paco Gómez

  13. Mapping the Blind Spots

    Fundación Lázaro Galdiano

    NOPHOTO

    Two long standing photo collectives collaborate in a publishing and exhibition project involving the recognition of their archives. In the last years, both photography groups have researched on historical, socio-cultural (...)

  14. Fotonoviembre 2005

    Jorquera

    EXHIBITION AT INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL FOTONOVIEMBRE 2005

  15. From Urban to Domestic

    Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid

    Juan Santos

    "From Urban to Domestic" is an exhibition that took place at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 2007. Juan Santos and Marta Soul showed some of their works that (...)

  16. Retando a la suerte

    Tabacalera

    NOPHOTO

  17. Every Building on the Olivar Strip except one. After Ruscha

    Canal Abierto

    Juan Santos

    Collective exhibition Canal Abierto in the Water deposit of Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, in the XV Jornadas de la Imagen with the subject "The copy, the false and the (...)

  18. Kamikazes de la imagen

    Exposición del Taller exprés - Madrid - CentroCentro

    NOPHOTO

  19. Kamikazes de la imagen

    CentroCentro

    NOPHOTO

  20. Muta Matadero

    Matadero Madrid

    NOPHOTO

    The collective project Muta Matadero forms part of the opening for Matadero Madrid as a new space, telling the visual story of the former municipal slaughterhouse, the Matadero, and its (...)

  21. E·CO 2010. Meeting between European and American Photography Collectives

    Tabacalera

    NOPHOTO

    E·CO 2010. Meeting between European and American Photography Collectives is an initiative from the Spanish Ministry of Culture which brings together 20 photography collectives from Europe and Latin America, as (...)

  22. Here and Now

    Instituto Cervantes + AECID

    NOPHOTO

    Here and Now is a collective project on documentary photography in contemporary Spain that deals with some common subject matters, both modern and long-standing, associated with our country—bars, motorbikes, religion, (...)

  23. El último verano

    CentroCentro

    NOPHOTO

    In September 2012, El último verano (The Last Summer) is shown in Distrito Fotográfico of CentroCentro. This exhibition opens the art residency of NOPHOTO in CentroCentro which lasts one year.

  24. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

    Vegaviana + Wuhan

    NOPHOTO

    NOPHOTO shows its Vegaviana. Memoria Colonizada (Vegaviana. Colonised Memory) Project on September 14th with two exhibitions, one in Spain and another in China. The show in Vegaviana (Caceres) is (...)
  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