Home from Home

• Prize
  Shortlist
• Photographer
  Evgeniya Strygina, United Kingdom
• Date of Photograph
  2023-2025
• Category
  Europe
• Website
  https://www.soul-editor.com
• Instagram
  @souleditor

This project is about home and what it means for those who have become immigrants, by force or choice. It features Ukrainians and Russians who left their home countries after the war started in February 2022, and relocated abroad - temporarily or permanently.

Through photography, I explore what gives people a sense of belonging — objects, places, rituals, smells, memories. Has their idea of home changed? Does it still exist?

It’s also personal: I recently left home myself and I keenly realise the need to find the place where one ‘feels at home’, and I continue to search for that place myself

Evgeniya Strygina is a lens-based visual artist exploring urbanisation, contemporary landscape, and immigration. She honed her skills at the Fine Art Photography School, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and PhMuseum. Since relocating to the UK, her work has been exhibited at Photo|Frome Festival, London Lighthouse Gallery, Cicek Gallery, and LoosenArt Gallery, with publications in Fisheye Magazine, Truth in Photography, Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine, and Artdoc Photography Magazine. Notable awards include the Top 150 MIRA Mobile Prize, MonoVisions Awards, and Photometria Awards judged by Martin Parr.

Awards 2024 | ZIMA Magazine, Artist of the Month Award, Winner

2023 | Paris International Street Photo Awards, Honorable Mention, "Street & Architecrure"

2023 | MonoVisions Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Series, Street Photography

2023 | URBAN Photo Awards 2023 (Trieste Photo Days), Finalist, Spaces

2023 | Photometria Awards, Finalist,"Emerging Roots" competition judged by Martin Parr

2023 | 150 Top MIRA Mobile Prize

2015 | Best of Russia Photo Contest, Finalist, Architecture