PDN, July 2013
/Rick Wester says he looks for artists who "expand the lexicon of photography" and say something in an original way. "I need to see people who are inventing things, and I think that's what Paola does," he says. He explains that he saw in her work astute cultural observation combined with a "superlative" artistic voice "that's itinerant, worldly, even-handed, nonjudgmental..."
— David Walker, PDN, July 2013