From the Quiet Side

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/Nature
• Photographer
  Yana Raaga

From the Quiet Side is a long-term project born from walking the same northeastern borderlands of Latvia for years. This selection focuses on natural spaces — fog, trees, wind, emptiness — where presence is marked not by action, but by presence and attention. The landscape here is quiet, yet never static. It breathes, recedes, and reappears — like memory. These images are not about documenting nature, but about how it disappears: slowly, invisibly. And how the act of noticing becomes a form of care — offering an alternative to the restless noise and acceleration of the modern world.

Yana Raaga is a photographer from northeastern Latvia, where silence and distance are part of daily life. Her images are shaped by stillness, time, and a desire to see what exists just outside of attention. She works with both urban and rural space — always drawn to moments that hold contradiction: presence and absence, intimacy and detachment. Her practice is an ongoing conversation with impermanence.