/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yana Raaga, Latvia
• Date of Photograph
  2023-2025
• Website
  https://yanaraaga.lv/
• Instagram
  @yana.raaga

Unseen/Seen explores quiet moments that interrupt the ordinary — not with spectacle, but with presence. A gesture, a pause, a shadow. These figures don’t perform, yet they shift the scene simply by being there. A woman shapes vision with her hands. A child kneels before a wall of stories.
 A leg slices through someone else’s stillness. A body sits under the weight of culture. These are not events - they are fractures. The series is about what slips just outside visibility —
 and how these moments, once seen,
 rearrange the way we understand presence.

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.