Dry Cleaning (From The Series “Underworld”

Photographer Barbara Cole is acclaimed for her evocative and painterly underwater figurative works created entirely in the camera without relying on digital editing tools. Romantic in tone and rich in colour, Cole’s work has been exhibited worldwide and chosen for notable public and private collections in Canada, the USA and Russia. Her images have been celebrated with awards such as the Grand Prize from the Festival Internationale de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes, third prize at the International Photography Awards in New York, and, very recently, an Honorable Mention in the International Photography Masters Cup. She has created large-scale installations for the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre at Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital and Trump Hollywood in Hollywood Beach, Florida. Cole’s work is profiled in a new half-hour documentary from the Canadian television series Snapshot II: The Art of Photography, which aired in 2012.