World Photography Day - Celebrating 181 years of photography

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World Photography day is celebrated on August 19th every year to celebrate the passion of the photographers around the world. It was aimed to inspire photographers across the world to share a single photo with the world, with a plaintive purpose:' It's to share with the world, their world as how they see it'. Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented the first Daguerreotype photography process in 1837. On August 19th, 1839 the French government purchased the patent for the Daguerreotype process from the French Academy of Sciences and termed the invention as a gift "...

 

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