We are

Paco Gómez

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.

The No-Photo Republic

Unclassified images

Project

Hidden between the craks of history, forgotten by one and all, the rough and turbulent society of the no-photo republic rose again and again after the revolutions (largely of mathematical origin) that ruined it from the beginning of all thet is real. Drowsy with incomprehension of all that had happened, the captures of images were the only guardians of the ultimate meaning of the republic. With their actions, they managed to defend the indefensible from the avalanche of visionary attacks. With the passion of the eternally infinitesimal, this strain of rough souls drew a spiral of failure in time, a final breath capable of awakening nothing, but serving to explain the sad destiny of all thet is dreamed. That wasn´t exactly what happened, but let´s make an effort…

Disserting image captors living in exile in the absolute place
Republican pasquinade reporting the occupation of the Ministry of Lost Image by visionaires which triggered the third visual revolution
Earth expedition members during the taking of images
Earth expedition members transport document and individual portraits of captors
Death of images captor during third visual revolution
Captor 163A facing temporal-space location difficulties in the course of his narrow mission
Meeting at Ministry of Lost Image basements. Taking of decisions about the significant
Mythical captor Penzón Poderes posing with his dreams metal box right before his dissapearance
Three steps image capturing: positioniting, taking and runaway
Security guard Reto Licuán looks after the impossible access to the Ministry of Lost Image
Visionaire Polonidas visiting the forge of ideas to announce the act of treachery to be commited by the most radical visionary group
Retorcidas Carcelén exhausts all the options he has by means of a CED (Clonal external duplication) before a immens visionarie superiority
Captor Tendor Torroncias shows his grief after losing the last reality redoubts in defence of the island of power.
Ministry of lost image success court destrucion by the most radical visionary group