World Photography Day 2021: Celebrate The Day By Entering These Contests

World Photography Day 2021: Each year, several photography competitions are organised across the world in celebration of this exciting art form.

The World Photography Day brings together people who share a passion to capture moments and ideas and show the world how it looks like. Like historians, photographers, too, document the present for future generations to understand the past. The day is a celebration of creativity. While the evolution of technology has made photography a lot linear with everyone holding a camera, very few images emerge out of the lenses that accurately define the moment captured. Still, it's amazing that more people have now access to photography today. The World Photography Day originated with the invention of daguerreotype, the first commercially successful photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre. On August 19, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced the invention to the world. The French essayist Roland Barthes describes a photograph in his book, Camera Lucida, as a reproduction of the time that has occurred only once. "The photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially." How to celebrate Photography is a powerful and purposeful medium that triggers a very intimate conversation between the photographer and the viewer. Each year, several photography competitions are organised across the world in celebration of this exciting art form.