The art of photography is almost 200 years old and is now an everyday part of our increasingly visual world. The term ‘Photographie’ was first coined in 1832 by the French-Brazilian inventor, Hercules Florence, who had created a technique for capturing images using a process involving silver, iodine, mercury and salt.

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