Fenton is most recognized for being the first photographer to go out and get extensive photographic documents of war. (More specifically the "Crimson War"). Fenton became the official photographer and with his assistant set up their darkroom in a wagon. They used Acher's wet-collodion photographic process and took around 360 pictures of the war. The pictues were not really about emotions of agony of the war but more of the simple more factual things of war. When returning back home to England his photographs were displayed in both England and France. He finally retired from photography and went into practicing law.
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