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Storizen
|March 2023
South Asian photography goes back to the mid-nineteenth century when the British created colonial rule.
British colonial officials and merchants brought photography to the subcontinent to record the region's people, landscapes, and buildings. Photos began as a science and ethnographic study tool, but they soon became a popular medium for portraits and business photos. In 1840, a British photographer called William Johnson opened the first photography workshop in India in Calcutta. (now Kolkata).
This story is from the March 2023 edition of Storizen.
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