World Photography Day 2018: History, Theme and #worldphotoday Celebration
Happy World Photography Day to all of our readers. Like every year, the everyone celebrated World Photo Day on 19 August 2018 to have an impact on the lives of common people. On this day, photographers take images and share them with the world. Let’s read how the day started and how photographers worldwide have celebrated this day.
The History Behind World Photography Day
If we track down the beginning of World Photo Day, it has not been long since the celebration got started. An Australian photographer named Korske Ara started the celebration in 2010. He launched a website named World Photo Day and invited photograph submission. On the very first year, the site received 250+ photos taken by the photographers of 100 countries and reached 20,000 people. In only eight years, the day gets celebrated worldwide and almost 3000 photos get submitted on 2016 World Photo Day. When these images were circulated in social media with #WorldPhotoDay, they reached 500 million viewers. These numbers show that within these years, World Photography Day has become a global phenomenon. Now, photographers all over the world celebrate the day with zeal and festivity.
World Photography Day: Why Does it Get Celebrated on 19th August
Though photography got its own day only a few years ago, the history of photos go back a long time. If you are wondering why 19 August out of all days of a calendar year, here is the history. Ara chose August 19 to celebrate World Photo Day because the days marks a historical event. The event was the announcement by the French government that the patent of Daguerreotype process becoming public.
Daguerreotype, the first practical photographic process got invented in 1837 by Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce. The French Academy of Sciences made an announcement about this invention on January 9, 1839. The French government received the patent of this process on 19 August, 1839. On the same day, they announced that the patent is a gift to the world and anyone can use this Daguerreotype process for free. Due to this laudable decision of the French government, Daguerreotype became process open for public use from the beginning. This decision contributed a lot in the development and growth of photography. Therefore, this day is a perfect occasion to celebrate World Photography Day.
Celebrating World Photographic Day
Every year, a theme gets chosen for this day from World Photo Day. In 2017, the theme was “Understanding the cloud.” In 2018, World Photo Day chose not to select any particular theme. Rather, it chose to reflect on the past events and to find out how to make this event contribute more for a better future.
Never Lose Your Photographs
Photos are a great way to capture memorable moments. With the ever-increasing popularity of smartphones, photography has reached a new level. Nowadays, you do not have to have a traditional camera to become a photographer. Being an owner of a smartphone is enough to make you a photographer. If your smartphone has a top-notch camera attached to it, you can capture images of the similar quality of an SLR or DSLR camera.
Both smartphones and DSLR cameras store the images in SD card. Like any other memory storage devices, SD cards can get corrupt anytime without any prior signal. If your SD card gets damaged in any way, you can choose some good SD card recovery software to recover your images. In case you have stored images in your desktop or laptop and your hard disk crashes, do not worry. There is a solution to this mishap too and that is to use hard drive recovery software.
Conclusion
Photographs have become a part and parcel of our modern life. Most of us can hardly pass a day without taking a picture of ourselves or our favorite pets. But we should not limit ourselves to these type of photography. Photography has immense power to fetch attention of the masses to all the injustices and exploitations that exist in our world. Everyone must try from their own position to bring significant changes to the world using the power of photography. Happy World Photography Day 2018 !