Barry Toranto became interested in photography as a teenager and took his first photography class in 1973. He graduated from Goddard College with a BA in photography in 1978. Barry lives in Mill Valley, California.

Reflections Like dreamscapes, these photographs look inside and outside at the same time. Directly capturing reflections from windows, they were not created by layering images with photoshop. Looking through glass is always surprising. Changing the camera angle changes the reflections; shadows change the way objects show or do not show. Inanimate objects in a window can seem to have personality, as photographs are inanimate and yet arouse feeling. These images sometimes layer and sometimes merge. They evoke our double life: who we are inside and what we become outside.

Bodyscapes By integrating images of the female form with the landscape Barry creates images which he calls bodyscapes. This series of photographs accentuates the archetypal femininity found in nature. These landscapes bring back to earth the singular beauty and simplicity of the female form.

Stagesets Stagesets mixes photographs with objects, toys, and pictures. They are carefully assembled scenes that don't fit together.

Dogmotion The Dogmotion pictures capture "dogism", the sprit of dog. The slow exposures push the boundaries of photography by capturing what could not have been seen otherwise, except perhaps out of the corner of the eye. Barry enjoys the element of surprise in working with this series. The timing and action create unpredictable images: the pattern of sand, the placement of a ball in space, or the particular twist of a dog in motion.