In 1843, David Hill and Robert Adamson formed a partnership as photographers. Hill wanted to take pictures of each attendee who was at the Free Church of Scotland meeting. He was introduced to Adamson and it took them more than a year to create calotype portraits of each person in attendance. During their partnership they made more than three thousands photographs. The photographs included landscapes and architectural design. Some of the earliest examples of social documentary photography were Hill and Adamson's portraits of working men and women from the fishing village of Newhaven. Hill gave up taking pictures for years after Adamson's death, but he still sold prints. In 1858, Hill became a Council Member of the Photographic Society of Scotland.
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