One of the few in colour

Gabriella; Sydney, Australia; 2006 ©Gabriel Ponzanelli

I rarely shoot people in colour. There's just something about black & white that I really love that I don't think I've been able to achieve when shooting in colour. Or maybe it's because I learned photography in the film days and fell in love with the darkroom, which pretty much means all I did was black & white as colour was way to hard to do on your own. Either way, most of my portraits are in black & white, although I do shoot sometimes with the plan of working on some in colour. This one was one of those cases.

Gabriella is from Sweeden and we shot for my People of the Globe project, but once we had the shots I needed for that we did a few extras just to play with and I wanted to do some in colour. I'm not sure how it turned out because I'm never really convinced I got the colour right. It's a good thing Gabriella is beautiful and really photogenic. She carries the shot.