/ 2025 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Mari Saxon, United States
• Website
  http://saxonphoto.tilda.ws/art
• Instagram
  marisaxon.art

My daughter holds my face tightly. She thinks she is my reflection. But she is her own person — her own world — holding me for a moment, then moving forward on her own.

Mari Saxon is a Russian-born conceptual photographer based in USA since 2022. With an academic background in the arts and an award-winning career in architecture, she brings structural and narrative perceptiveness to her imagery. Through staged realities and character-driven narratives, she explores identity, transformation, and the unconventional beauty, blending absurdity with psychological depth. Her works have been internationally awarded, published, and displayed in 30+ exhibitions internationally.

Awards Selected honors:
2025
Critical Mass TOP 200 finalist (project)
IPA 1st prize winner (Self portrait category, project)
Women by Women (PhotoVogue global open call) shortlisted (project)
Lumicroma In Colors Project JOY Award (single)
Life Framer Youth, Colors, and Open contests shortlisted (single)
Colors Awards 1st place winner (single)
FAPA Bronze winner (project)
Life Framer Series Award, shortlisted (project)
13 International Festival PHODAR Biennial winner (project)
2024
Critical Mass TOP 200 finalist (project)
Emerging photographer of the Hamburg Portfolio Review (project)
Belfast Photo Festival shortlisted (project)
FAPA nominees (single and project)
2023 Russian Photo Awards finalist (single)
2019 Grant for learning course of Sergey Maximishin