secrets, 2025
Secrets is a series of quiet, cinematic secrets—images that feel like stills from a film that was never made. Half-revealed narratives unfold in shadow and dreamlike spaces: a figure at a window, a solitary reader, someone entering or leaving a room—each moment poised on the edge of change.
Looser and more painterly, the photographs don’t explain; they suggest. Secrets holds a hushed, elegiac atmosphere that’s also charged with possibility—glimpses of lives unknown, and futures that might still open.
Born in Toronto in 1953, Cole works across multiple photographic mediums, including underwater photography and modernized wet collodion. Known for ethereal imagery depicting figures in states of weightlessness and transformation, she continues to push boundaries, blending traditional techniques with inventive approaches in her quest for timelessness.
Cole’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., and is featured in international corporate collections. She was the subject of an episode in the documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II and published her book Between Worlds with teNeues in 2023.
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