Other forms: photographers
A photographer is somebody who takes pictures, especially for a living. A wedding photographer, a press photographer, she is a photographer.
The stress is on the second syllable — fuh-TOG-ruh-fer — which is different from photograph, stressed on the first, and photographic, stressed on the third. That shifting stress across one family is a standard English pattern and a standard difficulty. Note the specialisms, which are named as compounds: press photographer, wildlife photographer, portrait photographer. And photojournalist, which means somebody who tells news stories in pictures.
1nounphotographerSomebody who takes photographs, especially professionally.
“The wedding photographer took hundreds of pictures of the guests.”
photographer is a profession.
Greek phos, light, plus graphein, to write — a photograph is light-writing, and a photographer is the person doing the writing. The word was coined in 1839, within a year of the process itself.
Ancient Greek
φωτός
English, today
photographer
Built from
From photograph + -er. From photograph + -er, from Ancient Greek φωτός, genitive singular of φῶς (“light”) (fōs) and γράφω (“I write”). by surface analysis, photograph + er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA