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• Prize
  Curator Selection
• 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 2025 — Trieste Photo Days – Curatorial Selection
2025 — International Photography Awards (IPA) — Jury's Top5 (series The Unseen)
2025 — Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) — Honorable mention (series The Unseen)
2025 — Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) — Bronze Winner (From the Quiet Side, Control Gesture)
2025 — PX3 Professional 2025 — Honorable Mention (series The Unseen, portrait On the Verge of Emptiness)
2024 — PX3 State of the World — Honorable Mention (series Hearts Praying for Kidnapped)
FIAP International Salons (2025–2026) — Multiple Acceptances and FIAP Honorable Mentions

Dodho Magazine — ''One day / One frame'' featured project (20.04.2026, 02.07.2026)
WPAI Newsletter — ''One day / One frame'' six-page editorial feature (Issue 22, July 2026)