
Fingers
- Publisher
- Van Zoetendaal Publishers
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-90-72532-61-9
- Specifications
- Paperback with dust cover
16.2 × 22 cm
64 pages
Full colour + duotone
Text by Ilse Oosterkamp
Concept: Oosterkamp and Van Zoetendaal
Design by Willem van Zoetendaal
Ilse Oosterkamp's son Melle has multiple disabilities, including hypermobility, a condition that makes his joints extremely flexible, so that he can effortlessly create short-lived sculptures with his fingers. The poses last a few seconds at most and cannot be controlled; they are not staged but arise in his own way, without his being aware of it. As a photographer she is fascinated by being different, by the impossibilities and unsuspected possibilities of the body: beautiful shapes, but not always a pretty picture, in a visual culture where everyone seems eager to showcase perfection.