My name is Estella Mora Lopez. I was born and raised in a small town on the coast of Northern California. I started creating art at the small elementary school I attended from kindergarten through eighth grade. I did ceramics with Kathy, jewelry with metal man, drawing and painting with Harriet and Wood shop with Ron.
Now, I attend California College of the Arts in San Francisco. I major in photography, specifically photo documentary. I only picked up a camera about six years ago. I started with a digital canon camera, and then disposable film cameras, and then my first “real” film camera, a canon AE-1. I loved this thing, I shot and shot on it nonstop. I later got another camera and another and another and another, half of which didn’t work. Now I shoot on a $20 Yashica I got at an antique fair and a $40 plastic Holga. I’ve traveled across the country with both of these cameras, I take them everywhere I go, to the beach, up high on the mountain and deep in the forest and the fog.
I just love the feeling of it all.