  An experimental and theoretical study on the Photonic Hall Effect (PHE) in
liquid and gelled samples of ferrofluids is presented. The ferrofluids are
aqueous colloidal suspensions of Fe(_{2})CoO(_{4}) particles, which can be
considered as anisotropic and absorbing Rayleigh scatterers.
  The PHE is found to be produced by the orientation of the magnetic moments of
the particles, as is also the case for the Faraday effect. The dependence of
the PHE with respect to the concentration of the scatterers, the magnetic field
and the polarization of the incident light is measured in liquid and in gelled
samples and is compared to a simple model based on the use of a scattering
matrix and the single scattering approximation.
