Jonas Mertens

Jonas Mertens (Belgium, 1989) was

awarded his bachelor’s degree in audio

visual techniques and photography last

summer by the Narafi in Brussels. He is a

member of the music photographers’ collective

Genthology and has exhibited several

times in Belgium. His socially engaged

photo series Comfort Zone focuses on

needy people who are (temporarily) homeless

and on the places where they are given

shelter. Mertens investigates these places

by examining aspects such as the way in

which they are furnished, because that.......