Fred Bremner / Frederick Bremner (1863–1941) was a Scottish photographer, born in Aberchirder, Scotland. He left school at the age of thirteen to join his father’s studio and worked there for six years. In 1882, Bremner travelled to India to join the photographic business of his brother-in-law G.W. Lawrie in Lucknow. He opened and established […]
John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia as Johann Edvart Zachert, reached Calcutta from Unites States of America (USA) in late 1864. Being capital of British Indian Calcutta (Kolkata) was an ideal place for photographers to establish businesses. John Edward Saché was a master of the picturesque, excelling in this style, and offering astonishing views
F.W. Baker (active 1850s–1875s), moved to Kolkata, then Calcutta, India as an employee of Appleton and Co. He became an assistant to James William Newland in 1855 and was managing his daguerreotype studio till 1857. On his return from a photographic tour of the North West Provinces, he established a studio and advertised it as
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Darogha Ubbas Alli, a 19th century Indian, was an assistant municipal engineer and photographer in Lucknow. In the 1870s, following his retirement, Alli began photographing the city and its surroundings. He published three albums from 1874 to 1880. The Lucknow Album and Beauties of Lucknow both dated 1874. In 1880, he produced another photographic album, An Illustrated
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John William Newland (?–1857) an English daguerreotypist hailed from Redgrave in Suffolk, England. He was titled as a traveling daguerreian photographer who spanned the continents. He started his travels from New Orleans in 1845, traversed via Panama and Jamaica to reach Lima, Peru in December 1846. In early 1847 in was in Callao and by
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John McCosh (1805-1885), a Scottish army surgeon and a photographer was, employed by the Indian Medical Service during 1831–56. He was considered to be one of the first war photographer and the first one to have worked in India.
Joseph David Beglar, or Joseph David Freedone Melik Beglar (1845–1907), was an Armenian-Indian trained engineer, well-known archaeologist and an excellent photographer working with Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in British-India from 1860 to 1880.
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A lot of people say I can’t do it because I’m blind, or I have red hair, or my feet are too big. Get the right team around you, don’t set boundaries and go for it. Sabriye Tenberken The journey of Portrait of a Nation from Kanyakumari started with a great bang. Thousands of people gathered, media
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Travel is the language of peace Mahatma Gandhi It was 1982, I was 7 years old, and studying maybe 2nd or 3rd class in Seshasayee Paper and Boards, a school in Erode District in Tamil Nadu. I have a vague memory of one rainy day. when our teacher took the entire class to a movie.
