Roger Fenton

Place: Rochdale

Born: 1819

Death: 1869

Biography:

Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from Oxford with an Arts degree, he became interested in painting and later developed a keen interest in the new technology of photography after seeing early exampl...