Isabella is an Australian/Peruvian photojournalist based on Gadigal Land (Sydney). She is committed to relational, collaborative and research driven journalism practices with communities who have experienced misrepresentation in mainstream press.

Isabella’s diasporic experience and Native Peruvian heritage inform her work. In particular, she recognises that intergenerational trauma and the ongoing impacts of colonisation are widely felt in settler colonial societies such as Australia.

She was commissioned by Wellcome Trust (2021) to report on the physical health impacts of climate change, and by the Judith Neilson Institute (2022) to report on Covid-19 in the Northern Territory. 

Isabella’s work has been exhibited at the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), and published in international and national publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and the Financial Times. 

She has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2023), three times a finalist in the prestigious Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (2011, 2018), and a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award (2021). She received a Highly Commended for Best Photojournalism (2020) and Best Reporting on Indigenous affairs (2022) by the Journalism and Education Research Association of Australia. 

Isabella is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo (a community of BIPOC and non-western voices). She has completed a Master of Advanced Journalism (2022) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University (2008).