The Foto Awards

Mia Bella Chavez

Mia Bella Chavez is a photographer who was born and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Developing an interest in art at a young age, Mia Bella began taking classes at Echo Park Film Center (2009), Inner-City Arts (2014), and Las Fotos Project (2016). She has continued to participate in their programs for the duration of her pre-undergraduate education. In 2019, Mia Bella completed visual art courses at California Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) and in Cuba through a study abroad program. She continues to study visual art at Loyola Marymount University.

Instagram: @mia.baella

Anna Grevenitis

For autodidact artist Anna Grevenitis photography has always been therapeutic and based in self-inquiry, and so, over the years, she has effortlessly pointed her lens at her family and herself. In her daily introspection, she searches for meaning with her camera. Anna Grevenitis is interested in photography as an act of establishing visual memory and engaging in social visibility.

LINKS
• www.annagrevenitis.me
• Instagram / Twitter: @annagrevenitis

Annie Son

A student at North Hollywood High School and a Los Angeles local, Annie Son captures mundane human experiences through her camera lens, bringing life to a moment in time that would otherwise fade away, unbeknown. The 17-year-old photographer draws inspiration from minute occurrences—like untied shoelaces, linked arms, or a fallen can of paint resting beside a tree—hoping to tell stories and immortalize the history of life forms. Through her photography, she hopes to invoke emotions, be it sorrow, joy, or outrage, and perhaps even incite change.

Instagram: @annieson

Hannah Reyes Morales

Hannah Reyes Morales is a photographer whose work documents tenderness amidst adversity. Her photography, both visceral and intimate, takes a look at how resilience is embodied in daily life. She contributes work to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Geographic Magazine, among others. Hannah is currently working on longer term projects, focused on safe-space making and care giving.

LINKS
• www.hannah.ph
• Instagram: @hannahreyesmorales
• Twitter: @hannahreyphoto

Romina Estrada

My name is Romina Estrada and I am a 17 year old fashion and portrait photographer. I am a freshman in college, and currently enrolled in Cerritos College. In the future I plan on pursuing directing and screenwriting. I’d describe myself the same way I’d describe my photography, chaotic and colorful. My biggest inspirations are Tonya Harding, Chloë Sevigny, Greta Gerwig, and River Phoenix. I make art to bring reason to a world that doesn’t make sense to me yet.

LINKS
• www.rominamargie.com
• Instagram: @rominamargie

Cara Romero

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective.

LINKS
• www.cararomerophotography.com
• Instagram: @cararomerophotography
• Twitter: @cararomerophoto