Fred Bremner / Frederick Bremner (1863–1941) was a Scottish photographer, born in Aberchirder, Scotland. He left school at the age of thirteen to join his father's studio and worked there for six years. In 1882, Bremner travelled to India to join the photographic business of his brother-in-law G.W. Lawrie in Lucknow. He opened and established … Continue reading Frederick Bremner
John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia as Johann Edvart Zachert, reached Calcutta from Unites States of America (USA) in late 1864. Being capital of British Indian Calcutta (Kolkata) was an ideal place for photographers to establish businesses. John Edward Saché was a master of the picturesque, excelling in this style, and offering astonishing views … Continue reading John Edward Saché
F.W. Baker (active 1850s–1875s), moved to Kolkata, then Calcutta, India as an employee of Appleton and Co. He became an assistant to James William Newland in 1855 and was managing his daguerreotype studio till 1857. On his return from a photographic tour of the North West Provinces, he established a studio and advertised it as … Continue reading F.W. Baker
Project Interest: #HastagFuture is a progressive curatorial initiative about constructing a ‘creative knowledge cooperative’ through generating, and developing, narratives, images, and specialist knowledge of community about the climate change challenges and possible future pathways. This project is initiated with the responsibility and commitment to research and document the conversation with the rural communities from India and South East-Asia. For more … Continue reading HastagFuture
Darogha Ubbas Alli, a 19th century Indian, was an assistant municipal engineer and photographer in Lucknow. In the 1870s, following his retirement, Alli began photographing the city and its surroundings. He published three albums from 1874 to 1880. The Lucknow Album and Beauties of Lucknow both dated 1874. In 1880, he produced another photographic album, An Illustrated … Continue reading Darogha Ubbas Alli
Indian woman in western dress, Calcutta John William Newland (?–1857) an English daguerreotypist hailed from Redgrave in Suffolk, England. He was titled as a traveling daguerreian photographer who spanned the continents. He started his travels from New Orleans in 1845, traversed via Panama and Jamaica to reach Lima, Peru in December 1846. In early 1847 … Continue reading John William Newland
John McCosh (1805-1885), a Scottish army surgeon and a photographer was, employed by the Indian Medical Service during 1831–56. He was considered to be one of the first war photographer and the first one to have worked in India. During his service as a Surgeon with the Bengal Army in the second Sikh War (1848-1849) … Continue reading John McCosh
Joseph David Beglar, or Joseph David Freedone Melik Beglar (1845–1907), was an Armenian-Indian trained engineer, well-known archaeologist and an excellent photographer working with Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in British-India from 1860 to 1880. Beglar was interested in photography, a medium which had not been widely used in archaeology before; for the most part written descriptions … Continue reading Joseph David Beglar
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