Great black and white photographers, PART 2

Kremlin Fenton

1816-1869. After studying law in London, Roger Fenton trained as a painter in London and Paris. He showed his paintings and helped found a drawing school that gave  instruction to working men in London. Active in the arts, Fenton woked with French photographers Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq, which may have led him to pursue photography. In 1853 the British Museum invited him to document some of their collections. His photographs of the Crimea in 1855 were the first large-scale photographic documentation of war.