How it all began
Being nearly 50 years old in the year of Amateur Photographer’s launch, photography was far from a new medium. But the pursuit of photography from a hobbyist or ‘amateur’ point of view was a much newer phenomenon, making it a ripe market to launch a weekly publication. In the 135 years since our very first issue – dated Friday, 10 October 1884 – the photography world, and indeed the wider world, is pretty much unrecognisable.
Imagine hopping into a time machine and handing a reader of the first issue the latest copy
