Daring to blur at a time when photographs had to be perfectly sharp... This is the audacity of this pioneer of photographic portraiture, determined to free herself from conventions. Julia Margaret Cameron is today crowned with a first major retrospective in Paris, highlighting nearly a hundred photographs, from her first experiments to historical, literary and figurative allegorical compositions. If his approach to photographic technique far from the conventions of the time was strongly criticized in his time. With hindsight, this brand of a pioneering style has revealed itself as an innovative source of inspiration, where imperfection and accident become incredible artistic assets, as an ode to artistic sincerity, in search of the emotion in imperfection. The timeless work of Cameron, who adopted photography at the age of 48 when his children gave him his first camera, produced in barely a decade, between 1864 and 1875, remains today one of the most beautiful illustrations of the epic breath of the beginnings of photography, under the gaze of a visionary woman.