National Geographic Channel and Canon offer a rare insight into the eyes and minds of photographers

Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales by Light offers a rare glimpse into the eyes and minds of some of Australia and the world’s best photographic storytellers.

Shot in stunning 4K resolution, the six-part television series follows five extraordinary photographers as they push the limits of their craft in little-known, little-covered and little-understood corners of the Earth. Experience the challenges, successes and moments of joy as these masters of their fields work to capture their unique perspective.

Driven by an insatiable desire to explore cultures, wildlife and landscapes through the camera’s lens, they blur the lines between art and photography, showing us our world in a new light.

“It has been a privilege for me as a filmmaker to be able to document these amazing photographers as they travel the world for their craft. My dream as a boy was to travel the world with a camera or two in my hands. This project has been a fulfilment of that dream.”

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EPISODE GUIDE

Tales by Light │ Submerged 
Sunday 24 May at 8.30pm NZST 
World-renowned Australian underwater and nature photographer Darren Jew captures a Humpback Whale mating chase in Tonga and the 70-year-old wreck of a Mitsubishi Bi-Plane and active volcano in Papua New Guinea.

Tales by Light │ Tribes 
Sunday 31 May at 8.30pm NZST 
Legendary nature and cultural photographer Art Wolfe captures the famous mud men and the Huli people in Papua New Guinea, and works on his human canvas project with the Surma people of Ethiopia.

Tales by Light │ Adrenaline 
Sunday 7 June at 8.30pm NZST 
Prominent adventure sports photographer Krystle Wright captures the immersive world of free-diving in Vanuatu, athletes who appear to walk on air in the canyons of Colorado, and powered para-gliders on the flooded salt pans of Utah.

Tales by Light │ Wild Sunday 
14 June at 8.30pm NZST 
Legendary nature and cultural photographer Art Wolfe captures the great brown bear with the stunning backdrop of Alaska’s mountains and glaciers, immigrating wildebeests in the plains East Africa, and the hard-to-find gorillas of Uganda.

Tales by Light │ Himalaya 
Sunday 21 June at 8.30pm NZST 
Masterful travel photographer Richard l’Anson captures an important religious festival and the Tigers of Bandhavgarh in the Himalayas, followed by the exuberant Festival of Holi in India.

Tales by Light │ Panorama 
Sunday 28 June at 8.30pm NZST 
Leading landscape photographer Peter Eastway follows in the footsteps of Frank Hurley – the pioneering Australian photographer on Shackleton’s expedition to the south a century ago – to capture the wilderness and wildlife of Antarctica and South Georgia.