The Photography History Calendar
The Photography History Calendar is the world's first calendar built around the history of photography. Launched at Creative Hut Academy on 5 February 2014, it lays the whole timeline of the craft, from the day the word "photography" was coined to the cameras of today, onto a single calendar. Eight researchers built it, and seven record books recognise it.
Recorded seven times as the world's first
The Photography History Calendar is entered in seven record books, each certifying it as the world's first photography history calendar.
Limca Book of Records
National Book of Records
World Records India
India Book of Records
Asia Book of Records
Record Holders Book of Record
Miracle World Records
Seven record books, one calendar: the world's first built on the history of photography.
The whole story of photography, month by month
Most calendars mark the days. This one marks the milestones. A team of Creative Hut researchers set out to understand photography from its very beginning, and turned that study into a calendar that carries the history and the present of the craft in one place.
It answers the questions most of us never think to ask. When was the word "photography" first used, and by whom? Which was the first commercial camera, the first photograph, the first colour photograph? Alongside the timeline sit the photographers whose work shaped everything after them.
The calendar, up close
Watch the world's first photography history calendar, researched and built at Creative Hut in 2014 and recorded in seven national record books.
The firsts you never learned
The word
When "photography" was first used, and the man who named it.
The first camera
The first commercial camera ever put in a photographer's hands.
The first photograph
And the world's first colour photograph that followed.
The legends
The photographers whose work shaped the medium for good.
Then and now
The history and the present of photography and the camera.
Eight researchers, two gurus
Researched day and night at the Gurukul, guided by their gurus Abin Alex and Anu Joseph. Eight who read, gathered and built the history of photography into a world first.
About the Photography History Calendar
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One of our world firsts
The Photography History Calendar is one of several firsts and records built inside Creative Hut. See them all in the Research Lab, or talk to us about joining.