Benjamin Simpson (1831 – 1923), was a British Surgeon-General and a photographer born in Dublin. He joined the East India Company as an Assistant Surgeon in 1853. He served as the Surgeon-General for the Government of India from 1853 until 1890 and he was prudent advocate of the Empire’s values.
Thomas Alfred Rust (1841 – 1904) was a professional photographer from Stepney, London, United Kingdom.
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Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet (1845-1929), was a French traveller, writer, Geographer, archaeologist and photographer, who visited India in 1863. Amazed by the diverse richness of the landscapes, art and culture, and people, Rousselet extended his stay in India till 1868. He learnt Photography after reaching India, with a sole purpose to preserve the memory of the monuments
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Josiah Rowe (1809 – 1874) moved to India sometime before 1839 and began making daguerreotypes in the 1840s. Josiah Rowe was hailed as ‘the father of photography in India‘ by Dr F. J. Mouat, a British surgeon, chemist and the first president of the Bengal Photographic Society. Apart from journal entries, there is no evidence
James Robertson (1813–88), was an English engraver, artist and photographer who was active from 1853 to 1867 in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Crimea Palestine, Syria, Malta, Cairo and in India. Around 1852, inspired by the French engineer, Industrialist and photographer Ernest de Caranza, he took up photography, and for the next fifteen years devoted considerable time
John Henry Ravenshaw (1833 – 1874), was an employee of the Bengal Civil Service, a photographer and the Magistrate and Collector, of Malda district of Bengal between 1865 and 1867. During this tenure, he got interested in documenting and photographing the ruins of Gaur City. The ruins of the fortified city of Gaur are located
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William H. Pigou (1818-1858), he was a surgeon at the Bombay Medical Service and Calotypist. He took over the task of recording the ancient monuments from the first photographer to the Bombay presidency Colonel Thomas Biggs in early 1856. Dr Pigou was a member of the Bombay Photographic Society from 1854 to1857.
Maurice Vidal Portman (1860 – 1935), an officer in the Royal Indian Marine, self-fashioning anthropologist, historian and a photographer was an Assistant Commissioner and officer in charge of the Andamanese between 1879 and 1900. The British Museum commissioned Maurice Vidal Portman to scientifically document and photograph the disappearing races in the Bay of Bengal. He
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Richard Banner Oakeley (1834 – 1914), was an architectural writer and photographer, from England, travelled to Madras Presidency towards the close of 1856. He was one of the best photographers of archaeology in India during the 1850s. Near the end of 1856, advised by his friend Dr Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill, he visited the ruins
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William Brooke O’Shaughnessy (1809 -1889) was an Irish physician and one of the strongest applicants for the title of the first photographer in India. He moved to Kolkata in 1833 where he became an Assistant Surgeon with the British East India Company.
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