The Incredible Journey of #Photography The story of# photography began with two groundbreaking discoveries: First, the camera obscura—a tool that projected images through a small hole onto a surface. Second, the realization that some materials react to light, changing their appearance when exposed. Before the 1700s, no one had succeeded in capturing a real image using light-sensitive materials. 1717 – Johann Heinrich Schulze experimented with a liquid that darkened when exposed to light. He form