family of bankers and cotton merchants
University College, London; with Charles Lucy (1838); with Paul Delaroche (1841-43, Paris)
1847 – returns to London; works as lawyer
1849 – exhibits at the Royal Academy (RA)
1851 – exhibits at the RA; joins Calotype Society; visits the Société Héliographique (Paris)
1853 –founder of Photographic Society (London); honorary secretary until 1856; begins working exclusively as a photographer; official photographer to the British Museum
1854 – first Photographic Society exhibition; photographs Royal family at Windsor; Thomas Agnew commissions Fenton to photograph the Crimean War
1855 – Crimean War photographs exhibited at Old Water-Colour Society gallery (London); images published by Agnew & Sons
1862 – sells his equipment and negatives; returns to legal career
Paris (1841-43; 1851); Kiev (1852); Crimea (1854)
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Thomas Agnew
Glastonbury Abbey, 1867 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Baldwin, Gordon. All the Mighty World: the Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004
Fenton, Roger. Roger Fenton, Photographer of the Crimean War; his Photographs and his Letters from Crimea. New York: Arno Press, 1973