Her work moves between observation and intimacy, presence and memory. Often quiet, but always full. Raised between worlds, Nella uses photography to ask where we belong, how we remember, and what remains when things are gone.

Growing up without many family photos, photography became her way to hold onto something before it disappears. A way to say: we were here.

Nella began by photographing herself. Slowly, her practice grew to include documentary and conceptual work across East and West Africa, Europe, and the diaspora. Her visual language is rooted in light, silence, tone, and the body. It invites reflection. Whether she’s shooting in the streets of Bujumbura or in intimate interior spaces, her images trace questions of identity, gender, home, and ancestral memory.