Useful Photography is a magazine published once a year, focusing on overlooked and underwhelming images taken for practical purposes. Most people who survive a dramatic ordeal, narrowly avoiding death, are familiar with the urge to thank someone. This issue is dedicated to such expressions of gratitude via the form of ex-votos. Frank Kouws discovered a sanctuary in Italy where the walls are covered in ex-votos; small, framed collages, each featuring snapshots of wrecked vehicles and the survivors alongside their handwritten declarations of devotion and thanks.