I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can.
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.
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.
I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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.
I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. That is what is going to control your picture, because you are alone if your subject is not with you. And that's the simple answer to getting a good picture.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.