Julia Margaret Cameron's Isle of Wight: The pioneering photographer who snapped celebrities in her shed

Queen Victoria may have famously loved the Isle of Wight, but it wasn't Osborne House that hosted most of the island's celebrity visitors in the 19th century – it was a converted chicken coop in sleepy Freshwater Bay. The hen house stood in the grounds of Dimbola Lodge, home of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) and served as her studio. Next Thursday marks the bicentenary of her birth, and later this year the 150th anniversary of her first, and only, exhibition at the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) will be celebrated in exhibitions at the V&A and the Science Museum.

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