3 Discover inspirational photography content

Photographic inspiration can come from anywhere and take many forms, but home entertainment isn’t always one of the first places you’d consider looking in.

Yet there are more options here than one would first think. YouTube is a repository of some amazing content about photography, including TV series from the days when cameras sold by the truckload, and collecting a packet of freshly developed prints or processed slides was one of life’s fondest rituals.

Our colleagues on the Digital Camera World website have helpfully compiled a round-up of the best programmes about photography you’ll find online. Their selection includes some gems from modern-day broadcast TV, in both documentary and reality formats, plus made-for-streaming short films. And then there’s World of Photography, the programme that was a staple of US TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

These are just some