BIHT Zoom Lecture: Tuesday 10 February 2026 18.30-20.00 GMT
Valerie Haye, of the British in India Historical Trust, has sent the following details of a zoom lecture being given on Tuesday 10 February by Jeff Rosen:
Julia Margaret Cameron – The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography
Jeff Rosen
Tuesday 10 February 2026 18.30-20.00 GMT (ZOOM)
Julia Margaret Cameron, the celebrated Victorian photographer, was a child of Empire. The daughter of a governing official of the East India Company, she moved in the first circles of colonial Calcutta. Relocating to England in her thirties, she avidly followed press reports of the Indian Mutiny, taking up photography at a time when national and imperial politics transfixed Britain. Jeff Rosen explores Cameron’s colonial roots and how she embedded in her work imagery that visualised Britain’s imperial power.
Jeff Rosen is a former academic dean at Loyola University Chicago and professor of art history at Columbia College Chicago. He is now a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library, Chicago. He is the author of Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography (2024).
Lectures are broadcast via Zoom and are available UK-wide and to an international audience. Lectures are recorded and uploaded to YouTube for two weeks. Links are emailed to all ticket-holders.
Tickets for this lecture cost £5. Click here to book tickets (online, by post, or by bank transfer).
Valerie Haye, British in India Historical Trust
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