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    1. We are a NOPHOTO
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  1. Projects
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  3. Publications
  4. Videos
  5. Exhibitions
  6. Assignments
  7. Biography
  8. Workshops

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.

VGVN
  1. Publication
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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 and their family albums. It includes the reproduction of a mini book by Kindel, the photographer who best captured the spirit of the architect Fernández del Amo and the daily life in Vegaviana during those early years.

Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada
  1. Project
  1. Juan Santos. Souvenir from Vegaviana.
    Juan Santos. Souvenir from Vegaviana.
  2. Carlos Luján. Path to the Graveyard. Every single thing in Vegaviana and its surroundings is thought beforehand. There is a path along the Channel, heading to the graveyard, and, at the end, you would arrive to Borbollón reservoir. It is the one bringing all the irrigation to the village and the county.
    Carlos Luján. Path to the Graveyard. Every single thing in Vegaviana and its surroundings is thought beforehand. There is a path along the Channel, heading to the graveyard, and, at the end, you would arrive to Borbollón reservoir. It is the one bringing all the irrigation to the village and the county.
  3. Eduardo Nave. Fable of Arachne. Seamstress of Vegaviana.
    Eduardo Nave. Fable of Arachne. Seamstress of Vegaviana.
  4. Jorquera. Large-Format Camera.
    Jorquera. Large-Format Camera.
  5. Paco Gómez. Carmen Kindel.
    Paco Gómez. Carmen Kindel.
  6. Jorquera. Channel III-B. To turn this area into irrigation, during the settlements, channels were built around the village, bringing water from Borbollón reservoir.
    Jorquera. Channel III-B. To turn this area into irrigation, during the settlements, channels were built around the village, bringing water from Borbollón reservoir.
  7. Paco Gómez. In the country, scattered houses were built for the plots further away from the village. In the past, whole families used to live in them; nowadays, people hardly live there and they are used to keep the farming implements.
    Paco Gómez. In the country, scattered houses were built for the plots further away from the village. In the past, whole families used to live in them; nowadays, people hardly live there and they are used to keep the farming implements.
  8. Eva Sala. Our Lady of the Fields.
    Eva Sala. Our Lady of the Fields.
  9. Paco Gómez. Our landlady is called Perpetua but she calls herself Pepi. She rented us her former worker house, where she lived with her family. Now she has a settler house for large families, it is huge, full of rooms to host her grandchildren. She tells us her life by her front door, at sunset.
    Paco Gómez. Our landlady is called Perpetua but she calls herself Pepi. She rented us her former worker house, where she lived with her family. Now she has a settler house for large families, it is huge, full of rooms to host her grandchildren. She tells us her life by her front door, at sunset.
  10. Paco Gómez. Mr Diego and Ms Carmen pictured at Vegaviana church entrance. They are the patriarch from a gipsy family deeply rooted in the village. They were cattle traders and they arrived with the first settlers.
    Paco Gómez. Mr Diego and Ms Carmen pictured at Vegaviana church entrance. They are the patriarch from a gipsy family deeply rooted in the village. They were cattle traders and they arrived with the first settlers.
  11. Eduardo Nave. Afternoons in the Pool I. Key to cope with the heat in a summer afternoon.
    Eduardo Nave. Afternoons in the Pool I. Key to cope with the heat in a summer afternoon.
  12. Jonás Bel. 400 kg of watermelon. Before the paella, they distribute gazpacho. For dessert, watermelon for everybody.
    Jonás Bel. 400 kg of watermelon. Before the paella, they distribute gazpacho. For dessert, watermelon for everybody.
  13. Jonás Bel. Wild roars.
    Jonás Bel. Wild roars.
  14. Juan Valbuena. Fiesta. 1. Drinking 2. More drinking 3. Friendship exaltation 4. Folk songs 5. You are my father!
    Juan Valbuena. Fiesta. 1. Drinking 2. More drinking 3. Friendship exaltation 4. Folk songs 5. You are my father!

Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada (Vegaviana Colonized Memory) is a NOPHOTO project aimed to get closer to the settlement phenomenon and to the birth of a new collective memory. Using photo, video, sound and written documentary formats, it deals with two key features of this territory: the intervention on the landscape through the creation of new settlements with a unified architecture and the contrast between the official memory and the one from the actual characters.



Vegaviana is a village in northern Cáceres, Spain. A village with little more than 55 years of History and some resemblance to other almost 300 villages built last century in the 50´s by the National Institute of Settlement of Franco's regime, but different from other Spanish villages. 



Vegaviana is a village built to accommodate the settlers coming from different points of Extremadura to work the land turned into irrigated crops by building a reservoir and a great irrigation channel network in the area. In its squares there are still holm oaks which used to populate the land before the village was built. 



During summer 2011 nine photographers from NOPHOTO collective lived with Vegaviana inhabitants and took pictures of the stories and places they shared with us. NOPHOTO came into their homes and listened to their stories and memories, walked in the surrounding area, learnt in school and celebrated their festivities with them. 



And as a result from all that, these images and new stories attempting to get a closer look to what we called collective memory.

vegaviana.nophoto.org

Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada

Vegaviana + Wuhan
  1. Exhibition
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NOPHOTO shows its Vegaviana. Memoria Colonizada (Vegaviana. Colonised Memory) Project on September 14th with two exhibitions, one in Spain and another in China.

The show in Vegaviana (Caceres) is carried out in the form of a photographic intervention in the streets and squares of this town in the Extremadura region where NOPHOTO developed the project during the months of June, July and August within Campo Adentro (Inland) Project. Vegaviana. A Spanish Village, another exhibition of the project is inaugurated at the Ban Mu Yuan Art Centre in the city of Wuhan (China) with a Spanish potato on the spot.

Gimenells Memoria Colonizada
  1. Workshop
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During summer 2011 nine photographers from NOPHOTO collective did the first stay of this project in Vegaviana, a settlement town in northern Cáceres. 


In 2014 Juan Santos suggests to Centre d'art la Panera in collaboration with Gimenells Town Hall a workshop by cause of the exhibition Campo Adentro. Revisión 2010-2013, which the project Vegaviana: Memoria Colonizada is part of.


Here it is shown the second entrance of NOPHOTO in the project Memoria Colonizada, built together with the participants of the workshop developed in Gimenells: 


Alba Aldavert, Carme Aldavert, Anna Bosch, Marc Castelló, Jaume Charles, Hector Cliville, Antonio Fargues, Anna Isan, Antoni Jove, Imma Ojer, Lidia Sabaté, Ares Sierra, Adrián Soriano, Oliver Villas and the special collaboration of Vicente Ortín, Gimenells i Pla de la Font Town Hall and Centre d'art la Panera.

gimenells.nophoto.org

Vegaviana Memoria Colonizada
  1. Video

  1. EL ÚLTIMO VERANO

    Vídeo

  2. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Nepalgunj

  3. Pachadi Nepal Project

    Namobuddha

  4. Vote for NOPHOTO

  5. Image Kamikazes

  6. Muta Matadero

  7. The alfa-SATURIO Experiment

  8. Cercanías

  9. A New World is Coming

  10. Retando a la suerte

    Thirteen curators, thirteen exhibitions and one collective

  11. We are a Cycling Team

  12. 20 Ways of Setting Up an Exhibition

  13. El último verano

  14. Enfocadas

  15. Nocontainer
  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
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