Many of us enjoy taking pictures, whether it’s selfies or group photos.

It’s a way to relieve past memories.

But how was the very first photograph taken?

Whenever there’s a camera, there’s usually a smile or a pose ready to capture.

Sometimes formal, often wacky, and sometimes candid pictures.

Photography, that’s what we call taking pictures.

But before photography, the camera obscura was discovered in the 1500s by Alhazen or Ibn al-Haytham.

The camera obscura, or darkroom, is like a projector.

Using a small hole and light, it projects large image of an object.

However, it wasn’t until 1822 that the first photograph was taken using the camera obscura.

It was discovered by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French scientist and inventor.

While projecting an image with the camera obscura, he placed a film inside and exposed it for eight hours, leaving what looked like a photograph on the film.

He called it ‘View from the Window at Le Gras.’

Years later, based on these inventions, in 1855, the first colored photographs were created.

These typically featured red, blue, and green.

By 1855, photographs taken on film could be easily printed.

Today, the process of taking photographs has greatly advanced with modern technology.

Photographs serves as a bridge to revisit memories captured by cameras.

A glimpse into the past that seems frozen in time and can only be seen once.