Today, on the International Day of Photographer – our audio story about Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (1845 or 1846-1916) – photographer, traveller and ethnographer, one of the prominent photographers of Georgia.

Photographers – amateurs and professionals involved in photography celebrate their professional holiday every year on the 12^th of July.
We owe the invention of photography to Louis Docker, the discoverer of daguerroetype, who made the sun "draw" in 1839, to Joseph Niépce, who experimented with the camera obscura in the 1920s, and to William Talbot, who patented negative-positive technology in 1841. Over the next century, the art of photography developed rapidly, and by the 20^th century, photography had become one of the most significant inventions and ways of capturing the reality around us. The world history knows hundreds of famous photographers whose works represent an invaluable contribution to world culture and art.

The museum Collection repository features a large quantity of photographs dating back to the late 19^th - early 20^th centuries. One can examine the pre-revolutionary Russian cities scenery, old photographs of the Imperial family members, made in the workshops of the first court photographers – Sergey Levitsky and Karl Bergamasko.

A special place in the museum exposition is occupied by the selection of genre and scenic photographs of the Caucasus – the birthplace of David Iakobachvili, the founder of the museum “Collection”, created by one of the first Russian professional photographers – Dmitri Yermakov.
Our today's story narrates about this prominent photographer.

The biography of the photographer is posted in the section Authors.