Quickshaws Tours is offering an twelve night tour in Sri Lanka to discover the places photographed by and associated with Julia Margaret Cameron, who died and was buried in the country in 1879. The tour will take in the first Cameron plantatio described in her letters, their coffee estates including Dimbulla, places she photographed, and her burial place at St Mary's Church, Bogawantalawa. In addition the tour will take in other historic places, sights and landscapes as well as the food and culture of the country.
The tour has been produced by, and will have the services of, Cameron scholar Aneela de Soysa. Discover where she lived and made her last photographs, and explore her life in British Ceylon on a tour of Sri Lanka. The tour is for art historians and photographers interested in the work of Cameron to experience the sights and sounds of Sri Lanka then and now and includes seven World Heritage Sites.
Discover Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon 1875-1879
Tour led by Aneela de Soysa
9-21 February 2025
For full details of the itinerary and cost see: https://www.aneeladesoysa.com/
UPDATED: The organisers have jus tannounced a shorter 8-night tour that covers the principal Cameron sites, and omits some of the other Sri Lanka sites.
See Aneela de Soysa speak about Cameron here
Image: Julia Margaret Cameron, Two Young Women, Ceylon, 1875-79, Albumen Print, AIC
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