Barbara Pedrick is an award-winning photographer with her own portrait studio in Victoria, British Columbia. She received her first camera for her 12th birthday, immediately began taking pictures of her little sister, and has been photographing people ever since.

The Broad Canvas:
Portraits of Women by Women
by Linda Rogers

This richly illustrated book follows the stories of women overcoming pain, politics, and prejudice as they sing, dance, act, write, and paint toward the new millenium. Every story of these mothers of artistic freedom is at once intimate and inspirational. Like Renaissance murals full of contemporary faces, this is a broad canvas of familiar heads talking.