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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. 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 (...)

  2. Sugarfree

    Carlos Sanva

  3. 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 (...)

  4. 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 (...)

  5. Fotoensayo "A grove of trees from a point of view”

    El País Semanal

    Juan Millás

  6. Todas Direcciones

    A5

    Juan Santos

    One road, headed out west. A mission. A trip with an unplanned route, but in a single direction. One srtarting point and different ending points, that never end in the (...)

  7. 2013

    Jonás Bel + Rafael Trapiello

  8. SOLOVKI

    Un proyecto conjunto con Juan Manuel Castro Prieto

    Rafael Trapiello

  9. Silenced Land

    Eduardo Nave

    "Silenced Land" is a reflection on the muteness and mutilation that starts when vulneration takes place between the vital relationship between man and natural surroundings. It is a portrayal of (...)

  10. #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. (...)

  11. 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”. (...)

  12. Nación Rotonda

    Rafael Trapiello

  13. Sobre el once de marzo

    Video

    Eduardo Nave

  14. A grove of trees from a point of view

    Juan Millás

    This project is an imaginary proposal on the origins of landscape and the beginning of the gaze. As background for the work, we have chosen a forest in Côtes d’Armor (...)

  15. 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.

  16. Parece posible encontrar todavía algo por descubrir en el jardín

    Juan Millás

  17. 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 (...)

  18. Sicilia

    Cuaderno de viaje

    Rafael Trapiello

  19. 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? (...)

  20. Cómo hacer buenas fotografías

    para El Diari Indultat

    Juan Millás

  21. Mulberry Harbour

    Normandie

    Eduardo Nave

    Three days after the D Day, two artificial ports with the code name “mulberry A and B” were towed five mile per hour through the English Channel and assembled in (...)

  22. 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 (...)

  23. App Los Modlin

    espadaysantacruz

    Paco Gómez

    APP for Ipad a graphic adventure where the user turns into a detective. From photos found in the trash and solving some clues, the player should get the dream of (...)

  24. Amway

    No Health, No Future!

    Jorquera

    Amway offers a range of exclusive, competitive brands that meet customer needs around the world. From nutritional supplements to water treatment, cosmetics to cleaning products, these brands are the (...)

  25. Very Beaupeful

    Shijiazhuang, China, 2005

    Jorquera

  26. Tribute to Peret

    The father of Rumba

    Jorquera

  27. Chinese New Year

    Jorquera

    Someone once told me that on Chinese New Year his father used to go to the town cemetery to light firecrackers in remembrance of his deceased friends and family. (...)

  28. Not Only Nudes

    Eva Sala

    Step by step inch by inch (...)

  29. Namo Buddha

    Eva Sala

  30. Una breve historia:

    [1] IMPRENTA ALBERTO

    Jonás Bel

  31. Una docena de higos

    Carlos Sanva

  32. SINMATAI

    Three Countries Classic tour taking you from Singapore to Malaysia and Thailand. 9 Nights / 10 Days.

    Jorquera

    

Day 1. Arrive Singapore (D) On arrival in this ultra-modern island country, your local tour guide will meet you at arrival hall then transfer to your hotel on Orchard (...)

  33. Una breve historia:

    [2] LA VIEJA GUARDIA

    Jonás Bel

  34. 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 (...)

  35. Una breve historia:

    [3] CORSINO

    Jonás Bel

  36. 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 (...)

  37. Cuelgamuros

    Carlos Luján

  38. 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 (...)

  39. Watch all World Cup matches on Nophoto TV

    Jorquera

  40. Litany

    Eva Sala

    Litany: 1.Christian prayer done to invoke Jesus Christ, the Virgin or the Saints as mediators, in an orderly enumeration. 2.Procession carried out regularly by a rogation chanting the litanies. Easter (...)

  41. Numbers

    Carlos Sanva

  42. Three days fishing, two drying the nets

    Jorquera

    Shortly after arriving to China at the end of 2007, Professor Wan showed us this proverb in Mandarin class. I thought, just what I needed, remembering that I have to (...)

  43. West Bengal

    Carlos Luján

  44. Superficial approaches

    Towards a topology of the group

    Carlos Sanva

    There are subsets within any set. Belonging to both sets is determined by the sum of two differential qualities, one which justifies its presence in the primary set and one (...)

  45. EL ÚLTIMO VERANO

    Vídeo

    NOPHOTO

  46. 49 c.c.

    Carlos Sanva

    This is the size of a motor block for “almost” a motorbike. To be a motorcycle and not a moped, an engine must have a cylinder of 50 cubic centimeters (...)

  47. I remember

    Juan Santos

    "How can we ask Time to leave us just One soft memory that records echoes, Odours, laughter, the painful intuition Of the tremor we feel like a passing god.." (...)

  48. Shadows of Ouserlves

    Juan Santos

    Terrorism attempts to provoke feelings of collective insecurity by killing indiscriminately, making us think that all of us could be affected by it at any time and place where we (...)

  49. Cherry Blossom

    Jorquera

    There’s not much to see in Wuhan. So, every year at the beginning of spring, madness is unleashed when the cherry trees at the university start to blossom. It’s (...)

  50. Words that Keep Abysses

    Juan Santos

    "If you walk along hanging your head, your nails dug into the palms of your hands, your gaze will be held on the ground, in the gutters, the manhole covers (...)

  51. Guandong

    Rafael Trapiello

  52. Where Works become Art

    Juan Santos

    Where Works become Art is presented as part of the Art and Environs project carried out in the Venice giardini, the venue and scenario of the Venice Biennale where the (...)

  53. Wedding Album

    Jorquera

    Today I saw a woman burning her wedding album at the garden below my home. When I got close to the fire I asked her why she did that. She (...)

  54. Los Modlin

    Inclusión en el álbum familiar

    Paco Gómez

  55. New York / Texas

    Rafael Trapiello

  56. The Modlins

    Photos of garbage

    Paco Gómez

    The Modlins were a family of artists living in Madrid since the 70´s. Margaret was a painter, Elmer was an actor in Hollywood and their son, Nelson a model, actor (...)

  57. Solo vol. IV

    Segovia prison

    Eduardo Nave

    Where the silence is under suspicion and the void is a symptom of a past life, Eduardo Nave goes solo to feel the pulse of the landscape memory. In the (...)

  58. Diario Polar de Aníbal Hanko

    Una historia futurista del S.XIX

    Paco Gómez

    After the Second Worldwide Demagnetization, all digital files were entirely lost and human knowledge and its history completely disappeared. Overnight, humankind was left to its own fate; the findings from (...)

  59. Estrella

    Jorquera

    Star Train is a night service offered by RENFE (Spanish Railway Company) that allows joining large cities out of the city of origin in the afternoon or evening for a (...)

  60. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Nepalgunj

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  61. Artist Portraits

    Paco Gómez

  62. Radiochina

    Jorquera

    Interference reorganizes perception and transforms looking; it may be perceived as unsettling or disturbing noise, undesirable effects in the way of representing reality. I draw from overlapping frequencies, from a (...)

  63. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Namobuddha

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  64. The Whole Thing

    Paco Gómez

    Towards the end of the second millennium, the authorities controlling planet Earth decide that humans are ready for a new evolutionary leap, and they endow humans with a new tool: (...)

  65. Spiderman in Madrid

    Paco Gómez

    The second week of March of the year 2004, the newspaper Daily Bugle sends its best press-photographer Peter Parker to cover the events that are shaken the whole world. (...)

  66. 2711

    Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

    Eduardo Nave

    Grey landscapes, made out concrete and shadows. Also some cracks. No sky no ground. Pictures with no light, no horizon, no vanishing line. No reference, no clue. Nothing that tells (...)

  67. Vote for NOPHOTO

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  68. Inland Seas

    Paco Gómez

    Dominating and controlling water has always been a men need since the begining of times. The essential task performed by Civil Engineering is intimately associated with landscape destruction. However, it (...)

  69. LXXIX

    Pompei

    Eduardo Nave

    Pompeii. 79 AD. Places speak to us about what occurred. Ruins are erected like the traces of an expanding past, for we can witness the passing of time here (...)

  70. There Is No Such Place

    Eduardo Nave

    One of the largest and most important reserves of fresh water in the world is situated in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field located in Argentina’s The Glaciers National Park. Outstanding (...)

  71. Still life

    Juan Santos

    A broken landscape: the simple inclusion of an icon as powerful as a cross at a milestone marks everything in such a way that our perception of this natural space (...)

  72. Cuaderno de Menorca

    Rafael Trapiello

  73. Alekhine Defence

    Juan Santos

    1. e4 Cf6 2. e5 Cd5 3. c4, d6  Endre Steiner - Alexander Alekhine Budapest 1921 0-1 Alekhine Defence. Changing the chess pieces by (...)

  74. Limits

    Juan Santos

    This work explores the representation boundaries in photography through the concept of limit. It uses a representation parallelism with the limits concepts represented in traffic signals, height limit, speed, weight (...)

  75. Solo vol. I

    Matadero Madrid

    Eduardo Nave

    Sometimes I fall in love with ruins/ with their aroma their fog their secrets/ their shreds of pain make me blush but their remembrance nurtures me…            (...)

  76. Family Business

    Explorando Usera

    Juan Santos

    Following a framework that categorizes the city in economic terms, La Hostia Fine Arts proposes approaching the Usera neighborhood in Madrid as representative of the novel changes being produced in (...)

  77. God's World

    Paco Gómez

    Since the dawn of man, human beings have been seeking for bringing any sense into their unbearable insignificance. Their reflection brought them to create world god, a world where all (...)

  78. Courtyards

    Eduardo Nave

    Courtyards is an audiovisual work and the product of sleepless sight. Pinned to a fixed point, it captures an unpredictable life and its inconsequential happenings. From this position, (...)

  79. Dangerous Children

    Paco Gómez

    Dangerous children project is a endless pursuit of the fine differences we use all around the world to represent a very same concept into a traffic sign.

  80. Project K.

    A Kafkaesque investigation

    Paco Gómez

    Project K. is a crazy historic research, drifting between reality and fiction fronts, on the events happened in czech writer Franz Kafka’s life. This series starts by describing the process (...)

  81. Normandie

    Les rivages du débarquement

    Eduardo Nave

    On June, 6th of 1944, 5 million men faced each other in five beautiful and huge sandy beaches. One year later, a war finished in Europe. In every landing craft (...)

  82. The No-Photo Republic

    Unclassified images

    Paco Gómez

    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 (...)

  83. Image Kamikazes

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  84. DÚO

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

    Single-subject newspaper issued unpredictably which explores and defends the feature format developed by a writer and a photographer. This publication provides both authors unusual working conditions in media: time and (...)

  85. Muta Matadero

    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 (...)

  86. The alfa-SATURIO Experiment

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  87. Cercanías

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  88. A New World is Coming

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  89. Retando a la suerte

    Thirteen curators, thirteen exhibitions and one collective

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  90. We are a Cycling Team

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  91. 20 Ways of Setting Up an Exhibition

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  92. El último verano

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  93. Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

    NOPHOTO

    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, (...)

  94. Enfocadas

    NOPHOTO

    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 (...)

  95. Nocontainer

    NOPHOTO

    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
We are located on
Conde de Vistahermosa, 3. Local A
28019. Madrid
T. +34 915 652 945
info@nophoto.org
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