Roger Fenton (1819-1869) enton is a considerable figure in the early history of photography. He was a founder member of the Photographic Society in 1853. His early series of photographs of Russia, his portraits of the Royal Family, and above all his historic record of the Crimean War, won him international acclaim. His links with the Pre-Raphaelite visions are twofold. First, he adopted aspects of their approach to landscape, emphasising patterning and two-dimensionality; less significantly, he shared an interest with Holman Hunt, Madox Brown and J.F.Lewis in exotically clad women parading as "Nubian water carriers" or "Egyptian dancing girls". He "retired" from the photography at the height of his fame in 1864.