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Malcolm Daniel: The photography of Julia Margaret Cameron

In Cameron’s Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, Miss Keene, an arresting model about whom we know nothing but her last name, stares directly at the camera (and, by extension, at the viewer), her hair loose and her eyes open wide. Filling the frame, she seems to step out of the picture.

January 18, 2026 · Leave a comment

Kathleen O’Toole: A dimmer hope

First crack of crimson
in the January morning sky
engenders such an ache, not
only for the sun’s escape
from cloud block, but ours
from winter’s grip.

February 16, 2025 · 11 Comments

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