Famous Photojournalists

Louis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph NicephoreNiepce to improve the process Niepce had developed.

In 1839 after several years of experimentation and Niepce’s death, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype.

Some of the great photojournalists of the early picture story era included “Weegee” (Arthur Fellig), W. Eugene Smith and Robert Capa. They became well known for their gripping war pictures. In fact, Capa was killed on assignment in Indochina, and Smith was severely injured on assignment in Japan.

Robert Frank, Steve McCurry, Eddie Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, David Seymour, David Burnett, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Jones Griffiths and Kevin Carter are some of the famous photojournalists in the world.

HomaiVyarawalla was the first woman photojournalist in India. She started her career in 1930s and thereafter received notice at the national level when she moved to Mumbai in 1942 with her family, before moving to Delhi, where in the next thirty years she photographed many political and national leaders, including Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Indira Gandhi and the Nehru-Gandhi family while working as a press photographer.

Other famous Indian photojournalists include, Mayank Austen Soofi, AbulKalam Azad, N. L. Balakrishnan, Ritam Banerjee, Pablo Bartholomew, ArkoDatta, DhavalDhairyawan, Sunil Janah, FarhatBasir Khan, SaadiyaKochar, Kishor Parekh, AltafQadri, Raghu Rai, AchuthanandTanjore Ravi, T. S. Satyan, Subhash Sharma, Dayanita Singh and N. Thiagarajan. Victor George is an unforgettable name in the Photojournalism history of Kerala. He died in 2001 while taking pictures of landslides in Idukki district.