The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822, 200 years ago. This was achieved by using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene was made using a camera obscura,  then followed a few years later in 1826 at Le Gras, France, in 1829 Niépce entered into a partnership with Louis Daguerre and the two collaborated,  improving the process, resulting in the first real photo named Daguerreotype.