/ 2025 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Breana Helders, United States
• Website
  https://breanamazzagatte.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/breanahelders/

A quiet tension lingers between the desire for solitude, the pressure to perform, and the longing to be seen.

Breana Mazzagatte was born in California in 1990, and raised in La Puente, a city in East Los Angeles County. Her portraiture often carries a theme of grief and tension, drawing from her own life experience. Breana was adopted at the age of five and lost both of her parents in 2018.

Her series “Bleed For Me” was featured in Monster Children’s 2022 annual and displayed in shows across Los Angeles. Since, she was a featured photographer in Leica Camera’s SL3 campaign and published by magazines and photo blogs like Coveteur, Arlette, and Insomnia.

Awards 2025 - finalist - Women’s Street Photography New York Exhibition, shown at Artspace PS109

2025 - finalist - Lensculture Portrait Awards