Biographies

📌 Pioneer of motion photography (1878)

English photographer famous for his pioneering work in motion photography. His 1878 sequence of a galloping horse proved all four hooves leave the ground — and helped invent cinem…

📌 First photograph in Malta (1839)

The story of how French photographers Vernet and Goupil-Fesquet demonstrated the daguerreotype in Malta in 1839 — taking the first photograph ever captured on Maltese soil. An ea…

📌 Inventor of the negative-positive photographic process

William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process — the first negative-positive photographic technique, which be…

📌 Pioneer of photography and organiser of the first public photography exhibition (1839)

Hippolyte Bayard was a French photographer who independently developed his own photographic process in 1839 — one of the true co-inventors of photography. Despite his achievements…

📌 Founder of Kodak and pioneer of popular photography

George Eastman was an American entrepreneur and inventor who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring photography to the ordinary person. His innovations in roll film…