"From Camera Arts, February-March 2005, The Fortunate Photographer"
As the day was winding down at the last Review Santa Fe a photographer was unrolling an image that spread across the desk of another reviewer. It caught my eye because of its size, first, and then because of its captivating subject matter. The photograph on the opening spread, Incognito, was that image..
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"From Pei Mag, September-October 2004, No Limits"
Being a self-taught photo artist can be a blessing and a curse. It can free your work from staid convention, but it can also be mentally and financiallydraining. Nothing is a given; you have to figure out how to translate your
ideas into images or you’ll fail. This constant struggle to reinvent the wheel breaks some photographers. Others, it inspires.
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"Fashion Television Interview, June 2004"
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"From Photo Life Magazine, May 2004"
Like any successful artist, photographer Barbara Cole is a part of all that she has been. And so, too, has the remarkable assurance and authority of her work been generated from the extraordinary trajectory of her career in image-making.
Everything began early and abruptly for Cole. And everything that happened to her contributed a good deal to the artist she was to become.
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"From Globe & Mail, July 5, 2003, reviews: underworld"
The images that constitute photographer Barbara Cole's exhibition Underworld, now at Toronto's Tatar Alexander Gallery after a previous mounting at the Canadian Embassy in Japan, are so ethereally gorgeous it's downright disconcerting. Beauty is big in art these days, yes, but these endlessly voluptuous images of comely young women in and out of their diaphanous garments and gliding about in pools of deep, clear, green-blue water sing such a siren song, visually speaking, you find yourself hopelessly, uncritically prostrate before their loveliness.
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