/ 2026 / Special / Smartphone Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yana Raaga, Latvia
• Date of Photograph
  20.02.2026
• Website
  https://yanaraaga.lv/
• Instagram
  @yana.raaga

A quiet observation of winter transformed by light, surface, and minimal shifts in perception.
Rather than documenting landscape, the image explores the fragile moment when ordinary snow begins to dissolve into abstraction — becoming form, rhythm, and spatial tension.
Made within the environment of a small Northern European town, the photograph reflects an ongoing attention to subtle changes that usually remain unnoticed in everyday reality.

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 2025 — Trieste Photo Days – Curatorial Selection
2025 — International Photography Awards (IPA) — Jury's Top5 (series The Unseen)
2025 — Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) — Honorable mention (series The Unseen)
2025 — Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) — Bronze Winner (From the Quiet Side, Control Gesture)
2025 — PX3 Professional 2025 — Honorable Mention (series The Unseen, portrait On the Verge of Emptiness)
2024 — PX3 State of the World — Honorable Mention (series Hearts Praying for Kidnapped)
FIAP International Salons (2025–2026) — Multiple Acceptances and FIAP Honorable Mentions

Dodho Magazine — ''One day / One frame'' featured project (20.04.2026, 02.07.2026)
WPAI Newsletter — ''One day / One frame'' six-page editorial feature (Issue 22, July 2026)