Olive Cotton

Olive Cotton waited patiently for the exact amount of light coming in tho take her photographs. Cotton's most well-known work is 'Teacup Ballet'. Olive Cotton worked and learnt from the best in Australian photography. Olive Cotton and Max Dupain were childhood friends. The pair would often shoot the same subjects. Cotton and Dupain got married but failed soon after. She left for Mittagong and her work started to include streetscapes and modernist compositions.