1. We are
    1. es
    2. en
    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Eduardo Nave
  1. Projects
  2. In progress
  3. Publications
  4. Videos
  5. Exhibitions
  6. Assignments

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.

Solo vol. I

Matadero Madrid
  1. Project

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…
                                
Mario Benedetti. RUINS.

A ruin is an accident in slow motion

Eduardo Nave evokes the history of a place under the guise of a ruin. His way of seeing lends a melancholic feeling to the work, expressed as absence. The decaying walls of the Matadero (Slaughterhouse) reveal the impermanence of human activity, the passing of time and the finitude of things. Enigma arises from contemplating what was once there, but is now impossible to reconstruct. Emptiness endows the landscapes with a dreamlike dimension known to haunted places. The consequent loss of meaning entices one to rebuild it, thereby allowing the ruin to become a space for fantasies and imaginative speculation. But fantasy and imagination also conjure up ghosts. The Matadero’s deserted chambers are inhabited by specters, the photographer’s own desires, fears and concerns projected onto these remnants from the past.

Mireia A. Puigventos

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Solo vol. V

Río Tinto
  1. In progress
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Solo vol. IV

Segovia prison
  1. Project

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 series SOLO VOL. IV, Nave decides to break through all the historical barriers of the former Segovia prison to register the mood of the space and get us closer to the listening experience.

Prisons purpose has changed through time and, specifically, Segovia prison, an actual cultural center, keeps into its walls several stories. It was a center of Franco repression and among its most famous stores it highlights the mass jailbreak of ETA prisoners on 1976. After its premises were abandoned, it has also been a scenario for shooting several cinema events and TV shows.

The void of the old prison is an essential acoustic resource not only to hear the echo from the past but also to mentally rebuild stories. The context invites us to speculate on real or imaginary sentences, what fosters a tragic atmosphere in its mystery. In prisons origin lay the need to keep secret the treatment given to crime. They are places that naturally bring about cunning, slyness and punishment, but they are also centers of human resistance where the word freedom had its meaning. Feeling the pulse of the building is the usual method Nave uses to look for psychological and emotional status. The act of seizing every image lay on his solo listening to the former Segovia prison and this has been the result.

Mireia A. Puigventós

  1. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  2. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  3. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  4. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  5. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  6. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  7. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  8. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  9. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  10. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  11. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  12. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  13. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  14. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  15. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  16. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  17. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  18. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  19. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  20. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  21. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  22. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  23. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  24. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  25. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  26. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  27. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  28. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  29. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  30. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  31. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
  32. Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".

  1. At the time, in the place

  2. Silenced Land

  3. Sobre el once de marzo

    Video

  4. Península

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  5. Mulberry Harbour

    Normandie

  6. 2711

    Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

  7. LXXIX

    Pompei

  8. There Is No Such Place

  9. Fototaxia

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  10. Courtyards

  11. Normandie

    Les rivages du débarquement

  12. DÚO

    Carlos Luján + Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave
  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