Oenone (or Greek Lanthe)

Before moving to Sri Lanka with her husband in 1875, Cameron oversaw the production of a series of carbon prints of her photographs, printed by the Autotype Company in London. “I could not bear that all my ten years of labour should be forgotten and ‘the grace of the fashion of it’ perish and pass out of sight,” she wrote to a friend. Less sensitive to light (fading) and tonal shift (yellowing) than the albumen prints Cameron made herself, carbon prints, like this one featuring the ancient Greek nymph Oenone, lend a soft warmth to Cameron’s work, complementing their soft focus.