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Spéos Photography School, which finances the Niépce House, is committed to the protection of photographic heritage as well as to contemporary creation with a brand new project that will be launched in 2023 in Paris: Quai de la Photo. An art centre dedicated to photography on the Seine Located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, Quai de la Photo enjoys a privileged location on the Port de la Gare, at the foot of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and right next to the Joséphine Baker swimming pool. This unique place combines photography, navigation and catering.Its ambitions are to be: Spéos...

The Niépce House will participate in the European Heritage Days which will be held on September 17th and 18th, 2022. You will be able to visit the place where the very first photo in the world was taken by the inventor of photography: Nicéphore Niépce. About the Niépce House Niépce’s house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes is the singular place where Nicéphore Niépce invented photography under the name of Heliography then Physautotype. It is also in this property that he invented with his brother Claude the first explosion engine and that he perfected the vélocipède. Exceptional visits Exceptional visit of the place in...

The Maison Nicéphore Niépce Museum reopened its doors to the public on July 1st 2022, after a summer 2021 marked by the closing of the premises due to the Covid. Take advantage of the summer to visit this incredible French heritage and walk in the footsteps of Nicéphore Niépce, the inventor of photography! You will discover the exact place where the very first photograph in the world was taken and you will also be able to observe the oldest photographic workshop and lab. Important: the Nicéphore Niépce House is only open from July 1st to August 31st of each year,...