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.

Silenced Land
  1. Project
  1. Barx (Valencia, Spain).
    Barx (Valencia, Spain).
  2. Vallada (Valencia, Spain).
    Vallada (Valencia, Spain).
  3. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  4. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  5. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  6. El Saler (Valencia, Spain).
    El Saler (Valencia, Spain).
  7. Sotomayor (Pontevedra, Spain).
    Sotomayor (Pontevedra, Spain).
  8. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  9. Portela (Pontevedra, Spain).
    Portela (Pontevedra, Spain).
  10. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  11. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  12. Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
    Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
  13. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  14. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain). ENG= Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    ENG= Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  15. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  16. Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
    Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
  17. Sotomayor (Pontevedra, Spain).
    Sotomayor (Pontevedra, Spain).
  18. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  19. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  20. Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
    Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
  21. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  22. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  23. Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
    Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
  24. Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
    Les Useres (Castellón, Spain).
  25. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  26. Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
    Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
  27. Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
    Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
  28. Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
    Oropesa del Mar (Castellón, Spain).
  29. Abalo (Pontevedra, Spain).
    Abalo (Pontevedra, Spain).
  30. Abalo (Pontevedra, Spain).
    Abalo (Pontevedra, Spain).
  31. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
  32. Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).
    Selas (Guadalajara, Spain).

"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 the absence of life as a need to pay attention and care for the eco-system. But above all, it is a tour through the universe of silence and the fragility surrounding it.
An exploration of the identity of the landscape marked by a tragic event. Looking at those places that have been witnesses of a dramatic event searching for the hidden scar, the invisible thumb print. Something appears behind the apparent normality as an unsolved enigma. The quietness of a burnt forest turns into something disquieting, in a sort of uncertainty, of questioning. A chilling beauty covers the horror and catastrophe. What substitutes the disaster is the image of a mute place inhabited by half uttered words, murmurs, whispers…
A ray of sun crosses the column of charred trees and some ivy creeps up a trunk. What happens in the photo places us in a borderline place between life and death, the soundlessness and noise, commotion and peacefulness. The identity of the landscape is also located in the limits of its definition, between spectrality and reality. The confluence of opposing sentiments and the contradiction of concepts mark a fine line where the gaze is located and reflection starts. The images are captured at the moment after the climax, when the flames have devastated the forests and there is no apparent signs of life. From this view point a tale on fragility begins to be constructed.
Mireia A. Puigventós

  1. At the time, in the place

  2. Sobre el once de marzo

    Video

  3. Península

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  4. Solo vol. V

    Río Tinto

  5. Solo vol. IV

    Segovia prison

  6. Mulberry Harbour

    Normandie

  7. 2711

    Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

  8. LXXIX

    Pompei

  9. There Is No Such Place

  10. Fototaxia

    Juan Millás + Eduardo Nave

  11. Solo vol. I

    Matadero Madrid

  12. Courtyards

  13. Normandie

    Les rivages du débarquement

  14. 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