/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yana Raaga, Latvia
• 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 started her way in photography during design and visual art studies in 2016 when she was 35. Since 2016 she is mastering and skilling her photographic skills and language wherever she is with her camera. Yana lives in the small city Aluksne in Latvia. Photography for her is mix of observation, curiosity, having personal point of view and being ready to respond. Camera is her extension.

Awards Five solo exhibitions in Latvia, the biggest one in 2020 with 100 photographs about home city, more than 30 group exhibitions (on the wall in print) around the globe, Px3 LE PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS "State of the World" 2024 finalist.