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Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Photographer
Mark Tamer
Nothingless World
Gomma Photography Grant 2025 Finalists

Gomma Photography Grant 2025

Nothingless World

Photographer

Mark Tamer

Nothingless World

15 Feb, 2026

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.I work 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.

About the photographer

Mark Tamer

Mark Tamer (b. 1965) is a London-based experimental photographer specialising in analogue processes. Mark earned an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication and a BA (Hons) in Film and Video. His first solo exhibition took place at The Muse Gallery, London, in 2019, and his photographs are held in numerous private collections. Awards:
 Lens Culture Critics Award 2025
 Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation Award 2024
 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial 2023
 CuratorSpace Artist Bursary 2021
 Muse Gallery six-month Residency 2017 
 National Disability Arts Collection & Archive Research & Development Award 2017