IG: @isabel.o.toole
Isabel is a British-Mexican photographer and experimental filmmaker working with analogue photography and celluloid film. Her practice explores folklore, religion and syncretism, with a focus on ancestral rituals, beliefs, and customs across cultures and generations.
Rooted in her experience of migration and cultural hybridity, her work examines how colonial histories continue to shape identity, memory, and systems of belief. The political landscape is a central focus of her work, informing an ongoing investigation into displacement, inheritance, and the enduring effects of colonisation on both people and the natural world.
Through self-published zines, experimental shorts and photos, her work considers landscape as an archive of violence and resilience, exploring how land bears the marks of extraction, erasure, and survival alongside the persistence of cultural and spiritual traditions. She is interested in investigating the ways cultural and spiritual narratives are preserved, transformed, and reimagined.
Baltic Analog Lab
Riga, Latvia, 2025
Publications
After Hours
Self Published Zine, 2016
Ein Hundeleben
Self Published Zine, 2018
So Summer is gone, Leaving no Epitaph
Self Published Zine, 2021
Golden Hour/ Blue Hour
Kominek Galley, Berlin
Upcoming