"World Views": RFI Celebrates 200 Years of Photography with a Multilingual Series
To mark the bicentennial of the first known permanent photograph in history, RFI has been offering since September 14 a series devoted to 17 iconic images, produced in French and sixteen other languages.
RFI is marking the bicentennial of the first known permanent photograph in history with an editorial project called "World Views," according to an article published on the radio station's website on September 16, 2026.
Since September 14, seventeen foreign-language newsrooms at RFI, along with the French-language newsroom, have been presenting a multilingual series devoted to seventeen photographs deemed iconic by the editorial team, which have shaped history, RFI reports.
According to the media outlet, this project was designed to bring together the station's various language newsrooms around a single anniversary event, with each bringing its own perspective to the selected images.
RFI does not specify in the cited excerpt the exact distribution methods for each installment or the complete publication schedule for the seventeen episodes of the series.
Sources
- «Objectifs Monde»: les 200 ans de la photo vus par les rédactions de RFI en français et en langues étrangères — RFI — Français
EGazette summarizes reporting from multiple sources; follow the links for the originals.
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