- Observed globally on 19 August to celebrate the art, science and history of photography.
- The 2026 theme is βHOMEβ, encouraging people to share photographs reflecting their personal meaning of home.
- The day commemorates the daguerreotype, an early practical photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre.
- The term βphotographyβ, meaning βdrawing with lightβ, was coined by Sir John Herschel in 1839.