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The First Great Gig in the Sky
Photograph/William Nicholson Jennings Image Source: www.hyperallergic.com When William Nicholson Jennings began photographing lightning, he had one purpose in mind; to disprove the idea that lightning...
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Into the Jaws of Death
Image Source: US National Archives and Records Administration The iconic image was made on 6 June 1944 as soldiers from the US Army First Division disembarked at Omaha Beach in Normandy during World...
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The Grand Hoax
Throughout human history, the ability to use technology as a tool for good is always at odds with those who would wield it to prey on people. The early days of photography were no different. At the...
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The First Photo of a US Presidential Inauguration
When the US Capitol was still under construction, John Wood shot the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration. The photo depicts the moment where John Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th...
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The Story Behind: The Photograph that Won Lincoln the Presidency
Photograph/Matthew Brady Pioneer photographer Mathew Brady is best known for his photographs of the vivid battlefields of the American Civil War (1861–1865). However, he also photographed 18 Presidents...
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The Largest Human Migration
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The year 1947 was a watershed year in the history of the Indian subcontinent. It is estimated that around 12 million people moved across the border of India and Pakistan...
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The Moment that Bowled Over a Nation
Photograph/Hemendra Anupamlal Shah The day 8 February 1994 was a historic moment for Indian cricket. A lot was at stake when Kapil Dev played the third Test against Sri Lanka at the Sardar Patel...
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Early Tornado Chasers
Photograph by: F N Robinson Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This dramatic picture is the second known image captured of a tornado. On 28th August 1884, as large storm systems converged, tornadoes...
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The First Streaks of Light
Image Source: www.lightpaintingphotography.com Photographs of light trails have always enthralled and fascinated people. But then, have you ever wondered how this technique first came about? Unlike...
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First Ever Printed Photograph
Photograph by: Unknown | Image Source: The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper Mark Twain once jokingly said to David Croly, Editor of The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper,...
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The Exakta Camera’s Hollywood Connect!
Exakta Camera This story was originally published in August 2013. In Alfred Hitchcock’s famous 1954 suspense movie The Rear Window, actor Jimmy Stewart used an Exakta camera, founded by Germany-based...
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When Photojournalists Boycotted PM Indira
Photographs/ Unknown (top photo), Dennis Andrews (bottom photo) This story was originally published on July 2014. Photography has always played a key role in building a politician’s personality, and...
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Bringing Hindu Philosophy to the World
Photograph/ Unknown. Image Source/ Vivekananda Foundation This story was originally published in March 2014. The first World’s Parliament of Religions, a seminar, took place in Chicago, United States...
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India From Outer Space
Image Source/ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) This story was originally published in August 2014. The Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as Mangalyaan, is ISRO’s first interplanetary mission,...
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Camera Managed to Capture Light Emitted 12 Billion Years Ago!
Image Source: McDonald Observatory This story was originally published in September 2014. Every photographer knows that once the moment has passed, it cannot be recreated to photograph. But on April 19...
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Earthquake, Fire and a Photograph
This story was originally published in January 2011. Sacramento Street in San Francisco, USA, was struck by a huge earthquake in the early hours of the morning of 18 April 1906, destroying many...
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The Human Spirit
This action-packed photograph of a baseball match is one of the most famous sports photographs of all time. Photograph/Charles Conlon. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Supriya Joshi presents the...
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The Origin of the Word ‘Pixel’
This story was originally published in March 2015. Digital photography has made the word ‘pixel’ extremely common, but did you know that this term is actually rather old? Also known as ‘pel’, a pixel...
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The Photographer’s Divine Muse
Photograph/Félix Nadar Image Source/Wikimedia Commons This story was originally published in September 2014. Born in 1820, Félix Tournachon or Nadar was a student of medicine, who dabbled in...
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Prisoner Diaries
This is a prisoner portrait of Alphonse Capone, better known as Scarface, who was arguably America’s most famous gangster. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Urvi Bhanushali looks back at the dark side of...
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