Barbara Cole

Barbara Cole

Barbara Cole, a commercial and fine. art photographer from Toronto. Since dropping out of high school to discover what it was she wanted todo, it seems that photography found her, identified her and ultimatelysaved her. Working as a model in her teens, Barbara was offered a job aas fashion editor for a then fledgling daily newspaper, “The Toronto Sun.”That led into an opportunity to shoot the weekly fashion spreads. Cole first discovered photography at the age of 19 while working as a fashion writer at The Toronto Sun newspaper. She is widely collected, and her photographs are featured in many prestigious collections, both public and private.

Since dropping out of high school to discover what it was she wanted todo, it seems that photography found her, identified her and ultimatelysaved her. Working as a model in her teens, Barbara was offered a job aas fashion editor for a then fledgling daily newspaper, “The Toronto Sun.”That led into an opportunity to shoot the weekly fashion spreads.

Barbara used this time to develop her skills enough to open her ownphotographic studio in the early eighties. Since then, Barbara has sampleddirecting via television commercials, worked for an extensive list ofadvertising clients all the while carefully juggling her treasured artistic career.

Barbara always remains true to her artistic vision carefully following her innervoice. Her work is exhibited world-wide and Barbara is widely collected byboth public and private institutions.