/ 2025 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yana Raaga, Latvia
• Date of Photograph
  24.04.2025
• Website
  https://yanaraaga.lv/
• Instagram
  @yana.raaga

The most available model for artist is himself/herself. Rembrandt left more than 80 self-portraits, that is a fifth of his art legacy. I enjoy taking self-portraits for many reasons. I am available for myself at any time, in any position, in any mood. There are no boundaries between me as a model and me as a photographer. It is interesting to follow the age-related changes and observe what remains unchanged. This is one of my last self-portraits.

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.