WINNERS

Mia, of One Hundred and Sixty Eight

  • Photographer
    Stefanos Tsakiris, Greece
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

At the girls' primary school in Minab, everyday life is shaped by small, recurring interactions—the walk to school, the opening of a door, the light filtering through the windows. Violence does not arrive as an image, but as a rupture. The cyanotypes, printed on sheets measuring 2 × 2 metres, function as surfaces of memory; as bodies that bear traces, imprints and absences. The bedsheet, as a domestic and familiar object, carries associations of protection and childhood. Within the exhibition,the fabrics hang, drift, recalling flags without a nation or coverings without bodies.