Jagoda Malanin is a finalist in the 2023 professional competition Sony World Photography Awards in the category “Still Life" , 3rd place for the series “Cryogenia”. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and studied at the Faculty of Arts in Porto. 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), and Membrana Journal of Photography (Slovenia). In 2021, she published her first photobook, "Memoir found in a bathtub". Co-creates the art collective "Hydroza". She exhibited in Poland and abroad.
In her artistic practice, she is interested in the concept of the "third landscape" (Staghorn sumac 2017). Her works touch on 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); habitual guilt (The 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.
