Christy Schnabel

"...You use skies, clouds, elements, and contrasts in light in a way that highlights the tension between your subjects’ inner lives, with the peril or the raging energy of the outer. The way the outer world or the elements swirl around them makes their lives and their innocence feel vulnerable and heartbreaking. But Bella’s hair is where the outer and the inner worlds meet. The universe has ahold of Bella’s hair. She’s holding onto the earth and her childhood, but the powerful force of nature is tugging at her and part of her has already joined with it." Cecilia Peck, Documentary Filmmaker