Born
in Miami, Florida, Carol has lived in Lee County, Florida since 1988.
Her work is becoming highly
collectible and in much demand due to the one-of-a-kind images that she takes and the diversity of her work. She is
the winner of the top award for photography for the second year in a row in the prestigious Annual Founders Juried Exhibit
at the Von Liebig Center in Naples (this year's judge was Ned Rifkin, former Undersecretary of the Arts at the Smithsonian),
and has exhibited at the Robert Rauschenberg Gallery at Edison College, the Von Liebig Art Center in Naples, ACT Gallery,
the Broadway Palm Gallery, Harbourview Gallery, Toll Brothers Installation, Harbourview Gallery, has a year
long exhibition at the offices of Dr. Wayne Burr and a permanent exhibition of 20 images at Bay Title, Cape Coral, Florida.
Carol has been featured in the following: Florida-Weekly, the Fort Myers News-Press and the Cape Coral Breeze newspapers and
Gulfshore Life Magazine.
"To me, photography is something that is
instinctive and continual, capturing and composing each moment, whether I am recording that image through my camera lens or
imprinting it in my mind. My earliest artistic drive occurred at age eight at my artist grandmother's knee with oils and a piece
of canvas while she painted her masterpieces. At age twelve, I discovered the beauty and challenge of photography and
although I have painted and created other forms of art for pleasure most of my life, it is photography that I am passionate
about and the art form that consumes me forty plus years later. I continue my journey studying art history and the great
masters and that strongly influences my photographic work.
Most of my work is in the purist form
with no manipulation, however, I am branching out into new and unexplored territories of fun as I continue my lifelong educational
odyssey."
I am driven by the images of places, scenes and landscapes that I see every day.
Most are timeless vignettes in plain view that you may pass by without normally noticing. As part of the whole, they
are unremarkable, but isolating them through the lens into a space occupied only by them, suddenly seem to be a special place
isolated in time and memory...a place where the viewer can lose themselves in the image and find a quiet place to take a vacation
in their mind."
With warmest regards,
Carol and Bruce
bruce@cohfoto.com
(239) 549-0403
