The Euronews Culture team handpicks and shares their favourite photos for World Photography Day. Today is World Photography Day, an annual celebration to raise awareness about the importance of photography. The day dates back to 1837, when Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the Daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process.
It takes place on this day to commemorates the declaration of patent for the invention by the French government. It’s a day to celebrate photographers and their craft, the process of documenting memories, as well as to learn about other people and cultures through the medium of photography. Above all, it aims to show that photo lovers from all over the world can enjoy an artform on a common platform, allowing them to embrace memory through a lens that can highlight or transcend the confines of reality.
The Euronews Culture team has handpicked their favourite photos and wish to share them with you - today of all days. My favourite photography is the kind that feels like glancing into the warm glow of an open-curtained window on a pitch black night. I shouldn’t look, the life inside is secret.
But in that momentary peak, you catch glimmers of people. Maybe an old Christmas tree. A broken-eared cat ornament.
The flickers of faces on TV. Fleeting fragments of something, or someone, that become freeze frames for your mind to piece together into meaning. This photograph by the late French photographer Olivier Metz.