WINNERS

Thank You Cards

  • Photographer
    Euphemia Protopapa, Greece
  • Prize
    Bronze Winner in Fine Art/Collage

'Thank You Cards' explores gratitude as an emotionally ambivalent terrain where acknowledgment, vulnerability, and resistance coexist. Through three photographs presented as postcards with handwritten letters, the series reimagines the “thank you” as an act of self-exposure rather than simple reciprocity. Addressed to people who shaped the artist’s life, despite ambivalence or trauma, the works become unsent messages that invite recognition, catharsis, and a reckoning with the forces that have shaped the self.