1. We are
    1. es
    2. en
    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Projects
  2. Chronicles
  3. Publications
  4. Videos
  5. Exhibitions
  6. Assignments
  7. Biography
  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

    cronica

  2. 10 years

  3. Del 20N al 20D

    cronica

  4. THIS IS SPAIN

    Historia

  5. THIS IS SPAIN

    CaixaForum Madrid

    exposicion

  6. THIS IS SPAIN

    Arconada

  7. VGVN

    publicacion

    VGVN, a publication inspired in LIFE magazine, shows some of the images and texts NOPHOTO created in Vegaviana, highlighting the role of its inhabitants through their memory, their personal stories (...)

  8. EL ÚLTIMO VERANO

    Vídeo

    proyecto

  9. THIS IS SPAIN

    Libro

  10. THIS IS SPAIN

    Book

    publicacion

    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 guide which give us some guidance in the current confusion we live in. The essay will reflect on concepts such (...)

  11. Mapping the Blind Spots

    Fundación Lázaro Galdiano

    exposicion

    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 (...)

  12. PSOPLAAINND

    publicacion

    Publication born from the research and exploration by Sputnik on NOPHOTO files looking for new readings on NOPHOTO work and the estrangement from their own works following this new way (...)

  13. Retando a la suerte

    publicacion

  14. Retando a la suerte

  15. Retando a la suerte

    Tabacalera

    exposicion

  16. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Nepalgunj

    proyecto

    Participatory and social photo project made by children from Hanuman Public School in Nepalgunj (Nepal). PACHADI in Nepali means "hidden", "not seen". Pachadi Nepal Project was born (...)

  17. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Namobuddha

    proyecto

    Participatory photo project made by Buddhist teenage monks from Namobuddha monastery (Nepal). Namobuddha is a Buddhist monastery and pilgrim centre 40 km away from Kathmandu. The place is a (...)

  18. Público No. 0

    encargo

    26th September 2007. With images from its photo archive, NOPHOTO illustrates subject matters of current interest—housing, immigration, religion, solidarity and education—that define the philosophy of the new magazine Público in (...)

  19. You are the Captain of my Heart

    Nokia

    encargo

    The NOPHOTO collective conceives, creates and produces the Nokia marketing campaign on navigation. Under the theme You are the Captain of my Heart, four of the collective’s photographers took portraits (...)

  20. Vote for NOPHOTO

    proyecto

    NOPHOTO disseminates its new corporate image putting up campaign poster during the municipal elections in May 2011 in Madrid. Simultaneously, a similar action takes place in Wuhan (China), where the (...)

  21. Vote for NOPHOTO

    Posters put up in Madrid

  22. Vote for NOPHOTO

    Posters put up in Wuhan

  23. RED. 25 anys de FGV

    Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana

    encargo

    NOPHOTO was invited to commemorate the 25 years of the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (Railway System of the Regional Government of Valencia). The project comprises a double exhibition in (...)

  24. Red. 25 anys de FGV

    publicacion

  25. Red. 25 anys de FGV

  26. EsMadrid + Ayuntamiento de Madrid

    Tourism Promotion

    encargo

    NOPHOTO carries out special reports for Empresa Municipal de Promoción de Madrid by covering different fiestas taking place in the capital city, as well as several other topics, from the (...)

  27. Training Days

    Universidad Europea de Madrid

    encargo

  28. OjodePez

    publicacion

    OjodePez magazine on documentary photography invites the NOPHOTO collective to collaborate as special guest editor of its seventh issue. Matías Costa and Juan Valbuena, members of the collective, selected fourteen (...)

  29. Mercedes-Benz + Pelonio

    Event Coverage

    encargo

    NOPHOTO documents sport events sponsored by Mercedes for the creative agency Pelonio aiming to feed its site experienciasmercedes.com. This time, Mercedes searches a different record of its activities, a photo (...)

  30. Holmen Paper

    Documentación corporativa

    encargo

    NOPHOTO has carried out a corporate documentation project in the Madrid factory of the Swedish paper producer, Holmen Paper. The photographs show working processes, meetings, facilities, employees and company events. (...)

  31. Museo Reina Sofía

    Documentación gráfica

    encargo

    Documentary photo work on the museum’s new extension, as well as exhibition spaces and common areas, with a special focus on museum visitors.

  32. Image Kamikazes

    proyecto

    Kamikazes de la imagen (Image Kamikazes) comes from the creative and visual voice of Spanish photo artists with Down syndrome. This time, people suffering from trisomy 21 are (...)

  33. Kamikazes de la imagen

    Project Video

  34. Kamikazes de la imagen

    Exposición del Taller exprés - Madrid - CentroCentro

    exposicion

  35. Kamikazes de la imagen

    CentroCentro

    exposicion

  36. Kamikazes de la imagen

    Taller exprés - La aventura del saber

  37. Kamikazes de la imagen

    Taller

    taller

  38. Muta Matadero

    proyecto

    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 (...)

  39. Muta Matadero

    Matadero Madrid

    exposicion

    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 (...)

  40. The alfa-SATURIO Experiment

    proyecto

    alfa-SATURIO is an intervention conceived and coordinated by NOPHOTO with participation from the collectives SUB.COOP, CIA DE FOTO, RUIDO PHOTO and TRANSIT, which took place on the streets of Soria (...)

  41. Muta Matadero x NOPHOTO

    publicacion

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

    Tabacalera

    exposicion

    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 (...)

  43. Cercanías

    proyecto

    At 7:39AM on March 11, 2004, three commuter trains departing from Alcalá de Henares were bombed en route to Madrid, and a fourth exploded by mistake at 7:36AM. One hundred (...)

  44. Here and Now

    Instituto Cervantes + AECID

    exposicion

    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, (...)

  45. A New World is Coming

    proyecto

    NOPHOTO has opened an office in China to manage projects that take place in the Asiatic giant. Taking advantage of the inertia produced by the We Are a Cycling Team (...)

  46. A New World is Coming

    Video del calendario

  47. NOPHOTOVOZ

    Summary Video

    Video summarizing NOPHOTOVOZ's work.

  48. Retando a la suerte

    Thirteen curators, thirteen exhibitions and one collective

    proyecto

    Retando a la suerte (Challenging Luck) is a project by Tania Pardo developed for two years (2012- 2014) in different presentation stages, creating a curatorial network around photography and NOPHOTO (...)

  49. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

  50. We are a Cycling Team

    proyecto

    NOPHOTO imagines a visual exercise to be executed in a faraway place. A determined team rolls in an adverse context full of obstacles and difficulties. Cyclist become then a projection (...)

  51. Somos un equipo ciclista

  52. Somos un equipo ciclista

    Making-of 1

  53. Somos un equipo ciclista

    Making-of 2

  54. 20 formas de disponer una exposición

    Tetris

  55. El último verano

    Clavando la exposición

  56. El último verano

    Rotativa

  57. 20 Ways of Setting Up an Exhibition

    proyecto

    It is the perfect finish to the international travels of the Here and Now (Aquí y Ahora) exhibition. After covering 20 exhibition halls in cities all over the world for (...)

  58. El último verano

    proyecto

    In July 2012, triggered by the tough austerity measures taken by the Spanish Government, NOPHOTO decided to compile evidences on the evolution of summer 2012, the most inhospitable and disheartening (...)

  59. El último verano

    Newspaper

    publicacion

    The Project El Último Verano finishes with a newspaper printed edition containing 72 pages compiling every single day passed after launching the blog. In a time characterized by news migration (...)

  60. El último verano

    CentroCentro

    exposicion

    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.

  61. Aquí y ahora

    publicacion

  62. Arco 2006. A Retrospective

    Ifema

    encargo

    NOPHOTO documents the 25th edition of the ARCO 06 Contemporary Art Fair. The results are compiled in four collections of images published in four different books: Species (workers, gallery owners, (...)

  63. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

    Vegaviana + Wuhan

    exposicion

    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 (...)

  64. En el barrio desde…

    Clubcultura + Fnac Valencia

    encargo

    Conceived, planned and produced by NOPHOTO for Clubcultura, this project recaptures the people and places surrounding Fnac Valencia from the blank space where the title sentence trails off, integrating them (...)

  65. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

    proyecto

    Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada (Vegaviana Colonized Memory) is a NOPHOTO project aimed to get closer to the settlement phenomenon and to the birth of a new collective memory. Using photo, video, (...)

  66. Enfocadas

    proyecto

    Conceived and facilitated by Eva Sala / NOPHOTOVOZ and Marcela Lockett, psychologist and photographer. Enfocadas (Focused) results from the creative, visual and written voice of a group of (...)

  67. Nocontainer

    proyecto

    Nocontainer is a portable space where one can get an in-depth look at NOPHOTO‘s philosophy on photography. Located on the street, it’s a place for showing and creating for all (...)
  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
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28019. Madrid
T. +34 915 652 945
info@nophoto.org
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