Dominique Somers / 00A forthcoming (Martin Germann)

(Martin Germann)

is captured

a kind of persistence and eagerness to exhaust all possibilities that does not exist in the wholly innocent play of a child

With the financial support of Mondriaan Fund

often there is a lack of words to talk about death

Dominique Somers / 00A forthcoming (Martin Germann)Dominique Somers work 00A consists of a remarkable compilation of found images. The title of the series refers to the starting point markings printed between the sprocket holes on the leader of a 35 mm photographic film. Somers has been collecting the first, automatic exposures made on this 00A frame of the negative strip for years. They are the result of a photographic practice that in todays digital age has almost become a form of archaeology: when