Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography. They lived a century apart – Cameron working in the UK and Sri Lanka from the 1860s, and Woodman in America and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture beyond its ability to record appearance – using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation and storytelling.

This publication brings them both together, surveying their explorations of similar themes of ethereal subjects – dreams, otherworldly beings, mythology and nature. Playfully placed next to each other at 1:1 scale, (where possible).

The dreamscape is emphasised through decorative typographic title interventions, taking stylistic cues from both time periods that the photographers were active in.

Colour references Francesca Woodman’s diazotype* Caryatid series, creating bold title page interventions and endpapers that contrast the predominantly greyscale artwork.