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.

Unweight

Brief essays on eternity
  1. Project
  1. The problem #1
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    The problem #3
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    The problem #4
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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.

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

  1. Sugarfree

  2. Una docena de higos

  3. Supermen

  4. Numbers

  5. Superficial approaches

    Towards a topology of the group

  6. 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