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Francis Frith in 1857 (photographer)

Francis Frith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer and businessman.

Francis Frith & Co., the company he founded in 1860 with the initial goal of photographing every town and village in England, quickly became the largest photographic publishers in the world and eventually amassed a collection of 330,000 negatives covering over 7,000 population centres across Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1850 he started a photographic studio in Liverpool, known as Frith & Hayward.

A successful grocer, and later, printer, Frith fostered an interest in photography, becoming a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853.

Frith sold his companies in 1855 in order to dedicate himself entirely to photography. He journeyed to the Middle East on three occasions between 1856 and 1860, taking with him three glass plate cameras, the largest of which measured 16" x 20".

He used the collodion process, a major technical achievement in hot and dusty conditions.

The famous British photographer Francis Frith never visited India himself, according to his travel records. Rather, his photographic journeys focused primarily on:
• Egypt, Nubia, and the Middle East (between 1856 and 1859)
• Palestine and Syria
• and parts of Europe.
His photographs of India were likely published in the archives of his company, Frith & Co., which he later founded. This company collected and distributed photographs from various parts of the world, often through contracted photographers working for him, rather than himself.