Sid Jones of Dorchester Camera Club gave us a very entertaining talk on the History of Photography this week.

Starting with the ancient Egyptians, who made images of the sun by exposing papyrus soaked in silver salts, Sid took us through the 16th and 17th painters using camera obscura, then through to daguerreotype, film and on to digital. Sid commented that there had been more changes in the last ten years than in the previous 100 years.

Sid showed us many seminal images that illustrate the photographer’s art, including works by William Henry Fox-Talbot, Nadar Price, Ansel Adams, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier Bresson and more.

To round the evening off he showed us some of his own images, shot with digital cameras, that he had taken on his travels around the world. These illustrated how far photography had come in the last few years.

In all, this was an exceedingly interesting and informative evening. Thank you, Sid!