/ 2025 / Portraiture / Children

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

There is a moment of suspense between solitude and the distant connection of observation. Mia’s gaze feels introspective, almost defiant. Somber in paradise and unaware of anything outside of her internal warfare, least of all the blurred man behind her.

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