World Photography Day In Pondicherry

World Photo Day, celebrated across the world on August 19^th pays tribute to an art form that has undeniably added beauty to human life for the last 175 years. This year, to celebrate 175 years of taking and making photos, Light Art Academy had organized a Photo Walk in Pondicherry on August 3^rd.

The Photo Walk was part of a globally celebrated event to celebrate photography. The walk started from the Goubert Market at 6 am and went on till almost 10 in the morning. The leader of the Photo Walk was a young photographer, Prabha Kar, who hails from Pondicherry.

The walk was an all-inclusive and free to participate event, where anyone and everyone who possessed a camera could participate. The aim of the event was to bring together photographers from different walks of life and in the process share ideas, pick up tips and take photographs.

Light Art Academy had also chosen this day to launch their new website.

The origins of World Photo Day:

The origin of World Photo Day can be traced as far back as 1837, the year in which daguerreotype, a photographic process was developed by Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre. In 1839 the French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government purchased the patent, announcing the invention as a gift “Free to the World”.