World Photography Day is observed on August 19 every year to mark the invention of Daguerreotype Process by Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre on this day in 1839.
On this day in 1839, Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre developed the Daguerreotype Process, the ability to capture an image using a camera obscura onto a light sensitive silver iodide plate.
A baya weaver bird building its nest on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Photo: Nagara Gopal
A young folk artiste performs a balancing act on the streets of Chennai. Photo: M. Prabhu
A news photographer gets right down to business, as he lies on the field to showcase the hard work of the farmer. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
A child plays with a broken camera on the pavements of Kolkata. Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty
A pied kingfisher shows its precision in the art of catching the fish, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Photo: Nagara Gopal
A seller bakes corn cob on the sands of Marina Beach in Chennai. Photo: M. Srinath
Salt pan workers set to return home at Naravakkam Village along East Coast Road, near Chennai. Photo: B. Jothi Ramalingam
A visitor at the exhibition of vintage cameras on the 175th World Photography Day at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in Delhi. Photo: Monica Tiwari
Children pose with their photos taken by photography students, at Government Tribal Residential School in Kargudy, Nilgiris. Photo: M. Sathyamoorthy
An antique Xenar Schneider -Kreuznach 4x5 German field camera of the 1913 gets a dusting outside Hyderabad's oldest Victory Photo in Secunderabad. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar
A woman shoots with her Canon DSLR camera. Women make up 29 per cent of Canon’s registered users in India. Photo: Bijoy Ghosh