I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.
When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.