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Francesca Giaitzoglou-Watkinson

Nominated in
2026
By
Void
Lives and Works in
Athens
She completed her studies in Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design in Athens and has been working as a photographer since 2015. Her work tends to explore social issues surrounding identity and gender through photography. Her main aim through portraiture is to capture the essence of the subject, conveying their character and ultimately telling their story. Alongside her socially engaged work, she develops deeply immersive and intensely personal projects that draw from her own experiences of belonging, memory, and trauma. Her practice is rooted in long-term, research-led projects that function as extended acts of introspection, using photography as a psychological and emotional tool through which she examines processes of self-understanding and transformation.
Projects
2024

Nama

“Nama” is the story of my passage through illness and healing, after being diagnosed with lymphoma. The word itself transports me back to its root, lympha, borrowed from the ancient Greek “nymph”. I wander through the convergence of mythology and medicine, with the Greek Naiads -nymphs of rivers, streams, and wells- as companions along life’s hidden currents. Once believed to inhabit sacred springs, they were guardians of waters whose flows were sought for cleansing, healing, and renewal. Lymphoma, a disease of the body’s inner waterways, parallels the Naiads’ realm, therefore becoming the framework for an assemblage of illustration, text, photographs of landscapes believed to have been touched by the nymphs’ presence, self-portraits, ancient sites, recreated ceramic offerings and the stark traces of medical scans, plaiting the clinical with the mythical. In this journey, from diagnosis to treatment, loss to hope, the Naiads, both healers and mourners, accompany me through this unsettling time, becoming guides in a deeper sense of therapy. They remind me that even in profound uncertainty, there is movement of water which carries away, where healing is not an uninterrupted flow, but a confluence of loss and restoration.
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Francesca Giaitzoglou-Watkinson
was nominated by
Void
in
2026
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Each year every member of the FUTURES European Photography Platform nominates a set of artists and projects to become part of the FUTURES network.

Francesca Giaitzoglou-Watkinson

Void selected Francesca Giaitzoglou-Watkinson for her use of photography as an in-between space of encounter: between the self and the other, the image and the memory, the vulnerability and care. Across long-term, research-led projects, she treats photography as a psychological terrain, where identity, gender, belonging, and trauma are processed through her intimacy. Also very distinguishes her work is her capacity to intertwine her own experiences with a broader cultural framework. Allowing personal histories to resonate beyond the self without losing their intimacy. Her practice proposes photography as a tool for self-understanding and transformation, and a form of accepting healing.

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Hristina Tasheva

Hristina Tasheva was selected for her rigorous approach to photography. Using it as a tool for thinking through history instead of trying to illustrate it. Her long-term, research-driven practice moves between personal position and collective memory. We also highlight her plurality: working across photography, archival material, text, and performative gestures. Grounded in lived experience while aware of Europe’s fractured historical landscape, her practice navigates proximity and distance, care and critique. The understanding of historical complexity, combined with her research-based approach, aligns with Futures’ commitment to artists who engage photography as a critical and reflective medium within contemporary realities.

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Odysseas Tsompanoglou

Odysseas Tsompanoglou was selected for his searching engagement with photography as a space for reflection. His practice moves between document and fiction, questioning how truth is constructed and experienced in a time shaped by mediation, instability, and perception. Working with loss, melancholy, and the possibility of collective healing, Odysseas incorporate in his practice his experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by applying strict technical constraints to his practice, using photography as a therapeutic tool to metabolise the instability of time and perception.

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Members of the jury:

Myrto Steirou — Editor and Founder of Void

Kata Geibl — Photographer and Professor in the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design BA and MA program

Maria Sturm — Photographer and teacher at HBK Braunschweig

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