Senigallia City of Photography, with the support of the Marche Region and in collaboration with the Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation, continues its exhibition dedicated to the great masters of international photography, offering a look at the very origins of photography with the exhibition dedicated to Julia Margaret Cameron, curated by Massimo Minini and Mario Trevisan.

On display is a nucleus of 26 shots of Julia from the collection of the gallery owner Massimo Minini; the most consistent nucleus existing in Italy today. The path develops according to a narrative that aims to recount Cameron's photographic experience that with extreme experimentation is articulated between bourgeois portraits, pre-Raphaelite inspirations, and the representation of literary scenes.

Julia Margaret Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815, an English photographer exponent of pictorialism, she was the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Photographic Society. She discovers her passion for photography at the age of fifty, thanks to her daughter who gives her her first camera as a gift. The images translate the dreamy atmosphere of the Victorian age into art, with the characteristic "out of focus" that highlights the dreamlike aspect typical of the taste of the time (see Proust La strada di Swann and Gérard de Nerval Sylvie).