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Category Archives: Out and About

On Julia Margaret Cameron, Making Mistakes

Out and About, Photography, Silver and Salt, Watching and LookingBy Elanor DymottJanuary 10, 2017

Julia Margaret Cameron championed errors. Her prints were contact prints, and her photographs made on glass. Starting out as a photographer at the age of 48, she used a coal-bunker for a darkroom, and a hen house as her studio.

On Finding Pennerton House

Out and About, Silver and Salt, WritingBy Elanor DymottDecember 8, 2016

An early reader of Silver and Salt wrote to me yesterday: ‘I would like to go to Pennerton.’ ‘So would I!’ I wrote back, explaining there was no such place. The sprawling country house in Kent, where much of the novel is set, is made of fragments of memories of houses I’ve visited in my…

On a mystery object, found in a grove

Out and About, Silver and Salt, WritingBy Elanor DymottOctober 27, 2016

One August in a Peloponnesian olive grove, I found this small, heavyish object hidden in the dry grass. I’ve no idea how long it had lain there; whether it was days, or years. The olive grove is where Ruthie and Vinny Hollingbourne live in Silver and Salt. When they were very young, their father built…

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