In 1903, Dante Lussin (Rijeka, 1876 – Mali Lošinj, 1937) married Romana, daughter of Benedikt Lergetporer, who opened the first photo shop in Mali Lošinj, attracted by sudden development of tourism. After he had received first lessons in photography from “the old master” he continued to develop; after the First World War he left his job in a post office to dedicate himself entirely to photography. Carrying heavy cameras made of wood and photographic plates of 18×24 cm he went all over the Cres-Lošinj archipelago to record “customs, traditional clothing and landscapes”. He did retouching and made collages; his shop offers over a hundred postcards with motives of the island. He died in 1937, the same year when Mario Pfeifer, one of his grandchildren, was born and to whom we thank for this exhibition of photographic equipment and original photographic plates with island motives from the legacy of Dante Lussin; they were saved after the bombing from their old family house on the waterfront of Mali Lošinj.