Blue Ruffle, from Shadow Dancing - Available in 2 Sizes
Barbara Cole’s deep appreciation for historical photographic processes led her to create Shadow Dancing, a series that she began in 2011, in which she uses a 150-year-old technique: wet collodion.
“Embracing your shadow means accepting every part of yourself—the light and the dark. It's about recognizing your fears, flaws, and insecurities and integrating them into your whole being. This series depicts various scenes of models in motion, gliding through the picture, creating a beautiful, three-dimensional dance between light and shadow.” – Barbara Cole
The artist’s preference for using one of the very first forms of photography allowed Cole to slow down the overall process of creating a single photograph and spend significantly longer in the dark room. Cole almost shortens the distance between the past and the present by taking a primitive form of the photographic process and modernizing it by adding colour to the tintype, creating mysterious pictures of beige, gray and brown shades.
The artist's archival fine art photographs are mounted to an archival substrate and framed.
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