/ 2024 / /

• Prize
  Shortlist
• Photographer
  Yana Raaga, Latvia
• Date of Photograph
  30/10/2023
• Category
  Europe
• Website
  https://yanaraaga.lv/
• Instagram
  @yana.raaga

I was visited Amsterdam in October 2023. Every day during my staying there I saw activists who brought on the main square footwear, heart-shaped balloons and pieces of paper with information about kidnapped by Hamas.

Yana Raaga is a Latvian photographer based in Aluksne, a small town in Northern Europe. Her work explores perception, silence, peripheral environments, and the subtle psychological conditions embedded within everyday reality. Through long-term observational practice, she investigates how attention, duration, and repetition transform the experience of space and presence.

Awards Finalist PX3 State of the World 2024; recognition in IPA and BIFA; multiple acceptances and distinctions in FIAP international salons.