Today (19 August) is a day to focus on your love of cameras, it is World Photography Day!
The day is a worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography, which each year focusing on a particular theme.
The theme for 2024 is “An Entire Day”. This is inspired by the fact that, each day, the population of earth accumulates around 20 million years of human experience (almost 8 billion people on earth, with 24 hours each).
So, in 2024, the idea is to capture as many different aspects of what happens around the world in one day as possible.
The history of the camera and photography goes back a lot longer than you may think, with the earliest surviving photo dating back to 1826, created by French inventor Nicephore Niepce and showing parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate.
The next decade, in 1839, the first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacture was by fellow Frenchman Alphonse Giroux.
In 1888 a simple box camera, the first to use photographic film, was put on the market by George Eastman. Then in 1900 Eastman took his idea one step further with the Brownie, a simple and inexpensive box camera that introduced the concept of a snapshot and remained on sale until the 1960s.
In 1949 the Polaroid Model 95 was developed, taking the title of the world’s first instant-picture camera.
Things continued to develop to the extent that in 1988 the first true portable digital camera, the DS-X by Fuji, went on sale. Then just over a decade later, in 1999, the first commercial camera phone, the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210 was released in Japan.
This began a trend of camera phones being developed, to the point that smartphones now routinely include high resolution digital cameras.
If photography is something you are interested in, then we offer a range of courses at our Dartford and Tonbridge campuses.
Here you will benefit from using state-of-the-art equipment including the latest DSLR cameras, film cameras and lenses. You will also have access to professional standard digital imaging and editing software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Bridge and Light-Room and two well-equipped photographic studios where you will benefit from excellent technical support from our Photography team.
You will also have access to our four Mac computer suites, plus you will gain experience in using the dark room to develop your hand-printing skills.
To find out more visit the Photography course page of our website.
You can find out more about World Photography Day by visiting the World Photography Day website.