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Photographer

Odysseas Tsompanoglou

Nominated in
2026
By
Void
Lives and Works in
The Netherlands

Odysseas Tsompanoglou (born 1998, Greece) is a photographer based in the Netherlands whose work explores loss, melancholy and collective healing. His practice investigates notions of truth, deterritorialization, hyperreality and postmodernity, often through speculative and situationist strategies that blur the line between document and fiction. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, he approaches photography as a collaborative process that questions authorship and invites the publics to co‑produce meaning and dialogue around the visual medium. Informed by his experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, he applies strict technical constraints to his practice, using photography as a therapeutic tool to metabolize the instability of time and perception. By recording the ‘glitches’ of a reality that feels increasingly separated from physical experience, his work ultimately seeks to construct a sense of home within the empty coordinates of the virtual age.

Projects
2023

Drowning in Flames

The only thing we have is others. And the houses are trembling And the car is drifting on a wet road And we hold our hands We drink ouiski, waiting for a big fire to burn the parliament, because we want something to happen that has an unpredictable cause. And anything is possible and nothing is done And the loop is coming and going And Today, I dreamed of a dreamless dream. It is a notion I have that reality has separated, and life has started to imitate glitches of it. From Black Rock Alladdin to Gemini 3.0, the virtual landscape has overtaken the physical world, leaving behind an empty coordinate where anything is possible and nothing is happening. Alienation and deconstruction have become a commonality—a feeling that meaning has abandoned the building we used to live in. In “Drowning in Flames,” I try to locate those glitches, recording a landscape that has departed from us.
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Odysseas Tsompanoglou
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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