Bronze in Portraiture/Self-Portrait / 2026 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Bronze in Portraiture/Self-Portrait
• Photographer
  Réka Judit Jaksics, Switzerland
• Date of Photograph
  2022
• Website
  https://rjj-foto.ch
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/jaksics_judit_reka/

A moment, frozen. A girl, suspended in the air, between past and future, weightless. The Now. The leaping girl is a visual manifesto of the new Renaissance. She embodies awakening, the lightness of being, and the raw, unvarnished force of youth. In a single second, an entire sense of life is condensed. Like Botticelli’s Venus, she too stands for birth. An embodiment of a generation that refuses to be bound. She is neither muse nor object. She is movement itself. She is life.

R.J.J. born in Budapest, is a trained concert cellist. In 2021, she began photographing daily and intuitively, with a strong focus on self-portraits and emotional introspection. Masterclasses with Antoine d’Agata and Roger Ballen. Winner of the IPFO/PHOTOVILLE 2025 Portrait. In 2025 she received the Awagami Factory Prize. The Zurich-based artist Andreas Lutz remarked: “You are photographing your state of mind.” Sandro Kopp, renowned for his intimate portraiture, has been portraying her regularly for several years.
Featured multiple times Instagram profile budapest_art_collector.

Awards Silver Winner of the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2025 (tifa). People-Self-Portrait category.

Winner of the IPFO/PHOTOVILLE 2025 Award in the Portrait category.
Jury member Dan Winters said: “The photographs are both powerful and sublime. These stunning self-portraits communicate both whimsy and self-reflection. Made in a land of magical solitude. I was happy that photography still has the ability to surprise me.”

In 2025 she received the Awagami Factory Prize at the 7th AWAGAMI International Miniature Print Exhibition (A.I.M.P.E.).

Winner of the EIZO Photo Award 2025.