Charles Shepherd (photographer)

1858–1878) was an English photographer and printer who worked in India in the second half of the 19th century.

His photographs include scenes of soldiers and civilians, both English and indigenous.

The firm moved to Simla in 1864, at which point Samuel Bourne joined the business to work as principal photographer.

[1] Shepherd and Bourne opened a second branch in Calcutta (now Kolkata), where they operated a portrait studio, and their work was widely retailed throughout the subcontinent by agents and in Britain through wholesale distributors.

Bourne & Shepherd continues to operate in Kolkata.

Afridis at Jamrūd Fort (1866) by Charles Shepherd. Jamrūd Fort was strategically located at the eastern entrance to the Khyber Pass in present-day Pakistan
Shepherd & Robertson photo of "Bheesties", Muslim water bearers, some of whom accompanied soldiers into battle to provide them with the life giving liquid (published 1868)