Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Experimental photography »

Nothingless World imagines a near future shaped by a cataclysmic event that leaves life suspended between ruin and regeneration. It explores a fragile, liminal space where despair and possibility coexist — a landscape both unsettling and quietly hopeful. This is our uncertain horizon, where war, climate change, pandemics, and societal unrest have become normalised.

Through a series of diptychs, Nothingless World inhabits the space between devastation and renewal, where the ghosts of the past linger and the contours of the future remain undefined. At its core, the work reflects on thresholds — the delicate moment between what has been and what might still emerge.

Mark works with 35mm film that is often more than fifty years old, material that physically carries the passage of time within its chemical emulsion. As the film surface deteriorates, it reveals blemishes and fractures within the image. These photographs are presented alongside film negatives soaked in salt and photo-chemical prints created using the chemigram process — techniques that embrace unpredictability and material transformation to conjure new, speculative worlds.