Duplicity

• Photographer
  Barbara Cole, Canada
• Studio
  Barbara Cole Photography
• Website
  http://www.barbaracole.com
• Instagram
  @barbaracoleart

Over the past 25 years my practice has dealt with figure
transformation. 
Duplicity, my current project, continues exploring
this theme underwater. Since 2002 I have been using the 
shape-
shifting quality of moving water and mirrored reflections. The
challenge is to 
break apart the human body only to re-assemble it
in an unfamiliar yet 
extraordinary way.

Figure transformation has been a predominant theme in my work. Over the past thirty years I have been operating as a painter but employing traditional photographic tools.
I rework this canvas with a toolkit that includes clouds, reflections, plastic sheeting, cloth-encased figures as well as aperture, shutter speed and artificial lighting.