1. We are
    1. es
    2. en
    1. We are a NOPHOTO
    2. of Photographers
    3. NOPHOTOVOZ
  1. Carlos Sanva
  1. Projects
  2. Exhibitions

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.

Supermen
  1. Exhibition
  1. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  2. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  3. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  4. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  5. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  6. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  7. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  8. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  9. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
  10. SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery
    SUPERHOMBRES 2010 Jose Robles Galery

Supermen
  1. Project
  1. I Forging an iron will. The future, controlled in an unavoidable manner from the very beginning, to achieve a specific purpose. Learning exclusively aimed at legitimizing one’s own will.
    I Forging an iron will.
    The future, controlled in an unavoidable manner from the very beginning, to achieve a specific purpose. Learning exclusively aimed at legitimizing one’s own will.
  2. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
  3. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
  4. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
  5. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
  6. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
  7. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
  8. II Interaction in neoliberal context One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.
    II Interaction in neoliberal context
    One vital, symbolic objective to make a round (materializing, in this case, in the form of a motorcycle wheel) performing three tasks that end up achieving the same objective. In a context without rules where equal opportunity comes as a given by each one’s own capacity to impose his individual will over the rest.



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 will that molds each one’s character (through selection and training). Thereby, by observing their behavior, we can identify some of our own similarities in turn.

“I am a Pit-bull on the pant leg of opportunity”
George Bush

For many generations, these dogs were chosen for their responsiveness to criteria that measured their usefulness. The objective was to train a dog that would carry out impossible tasks. It had to demonstrate the most resistance possible and the greatest jaw strength. In this manner since the colonization of the Americas they have served for defense purposes, in hauling minerals from the mines, helping butchers in the meat industry, and fighting for mere entertainment. Later, during World War I, they were incorporated into the North American military corps.

On a physical level, Superman syndrome is an anomaly in gender chromosomes when a male receives an extra Y chromosome, producing the 47.XYY karyotype. Throughout history, some scientists have fervently defended the notion, without being able to offer concrete results, that certain violent characteristics are directly related to this genetic accident.

In spiritual matters, Nietzsche’s concept of the Superman, providing tragic interpretations demonstrated by history, appears to fall within a fully effectual framework of an ever-expanding neoliberal context, whereby success is defined in terms of consolidating the will to power.

The pitbull is the ideal raw material for the project, given its condition as an object repeatedly subjected to the human will that conditions each one’s natural development and employs eugenic tactics aimed at capitalizing on its characteristics generally associated with violence. On the other hand, humans have undertaken the task of training the dogs with a specific end in mind—to serve them. The high degree of manipulation that certain dogs, like this breed, are subject to allows us to observe their behavior and, in turn, identify our own similarities."

Unweight

Brief essays on eternity
  1. Project
  1. The problem #1
    The problem #1
  2. The problem #2
    The problem #2
  3. The problem #3
    The problem #3
  4. The problem #4
    The problem #4
  5. The problem #5
    The problem #5
  6. The problem #6
    The problem #6
  7. The problem #7
    The problem #7
  8. The problem #8
    The problem #8

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 efforts to abstract being itself. Blocks of rock that frame wills unresigned to their material condition. Perfect illusions that only lasted a moment. What happens and what stays.

In this project, I explore the relationship between two concepts that already appeared in my supermen series. The will for power and the suspension.

Physical perception of mass and its relationship with the various forces that act on it may perhaps be the most obvious of all the universal ontological qualities associated with specific beings. The capacity to generate an illusion of the abstraction of one’s own weight by means of personal determination could be evidence of the confrontation between the real and the ideal being: man limited by his perishable material nature and surrounded by perfect universal ideas that are constantly put to test.

Aptitud para las armas
  1. Exhibition
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  1. Sugarfree

  2. Una docena de higos

  3. Numbers

  4. Superficial approaches

    Towards a topology of the group

  5. 49 c.c.
  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