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

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 (...)

Napolae

Juan Santos

Naples is a whole world, and if you try to photograph a whole world, you will be doomed to failure. With just one camera from another time and a film (...)

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 (...)

María's House

Jorquera

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

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 (...)

Península

Fotolibro

Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

DÚO#01

On March 11th. Press

Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

A single-topic newspaper published now and then exploring and reclaiming the feature format by a writer and a photographer. DÚO 01 is about the 10 years that have passed since (...)

PROYECTO K.

Paco Gómez

A present for Soraya

Jorquera

Xibanya

Jorquera

Is the book of Jing Jing in her first trip to Spain

The Modlins

An unbelievable story retrieved from the trash

Paco Gómez

It took Paco Gómez ten years to write THE MODLINS. Ten years of research, full of difficulties, to compose a narrative puzzle where the author rebuilds, from photos found in (...)

Jing Jing Book

Jorquera

Miércoles de Misericordia

Rafael Trapiello

Todas Direcciones

Juan Santos

A road photography project born in Spanish crisis time. Six photographers have traveled the six main roads that link the country trying to understand their own territory and looking for (...)

Tao

Jorquera

Unique book completed after my second trip to China in 2003.

VGVN

NOPHOTO

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 (...)

Visualbox Words that Keep Abyses

Juan Santos

Publication of the project Palabras que guardan abismos (Words that Keep Abysses) within the series VisualBox by Chucherías de Arte

At the time, in the place

Photobook

Eduardo Nave

The book collects those common places that were marked by the death in different attacks by terrorist group ETA since the sixties to the present. + info: phree.es www.alahoraenellugar.com (...)

15 years of Spanish Contemporary Photography

Sorts and Tendencies. Alcobendas Collection

Eduardo Nave

Book "15 years of Spanish Contemporary Photography. Sorts and Tendencies. Alcobendas Collection".

100 Spanish Photographers

Eduardo Nave

Book "100 Spanish Photographers". Exit 2006. ISBN 9788493463922

El Palentino

Jonás Bel

China Notebook

Jorquera

Unique book completed after my first trip to China in 2002.

PSOPLAAINND

NOPHOTO

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 (...)

La Más Bella Snack

Words that Keep Abysses

Juan Santos

Published in February 2009. The monographic subject of La Mas Bella Snack is the worldwide famous Spanish “"tapa"” (snack), which in Spanish has a lot of different and funny meanings (...)

Retando a la suerte

NOPHOTO

La felicidad

Paco Gómez