2023 Sony World Photography Awards - 3rd Place, Still Life, Professional Competition
Jagoda Malanin holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and studied at the Faculty of Arts in Porto. She was selected to attend the Nikon Noor Academy in Poland in 2022, as well as the Sputnik Photos Mentoring Program in 2019/2020. Her work was featured among others in Der Greif (Guest Room), Abridged Magazine (Ireland and NI), Membrana Journal of Photography (Slovenia). In 2021 she published her first photobook, "Memoir found in a bathtub". Co-creates art collective "Hydroza". In her artistic practice, she is interested in the concept of third landscape (Staghorn sumac 2017). Her works touch topics like endangered pregnancy and maternity fears (Memoir found in a bathtub. 2018-2020); the understanding of the skin as a concept (Skins we live in, 2021) or, habitual guilt (Thing with feathers, 2022) and survival (Cryogenia 2022). She works mainly with photography and ready-mades. She is interested in photography as a medium of disbelief, with its ambiguity and dissonance, and she looks for the tactility of photographic objects.