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  • National Geographic Channel

Tales by Light

  • 2015 – 2018
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~23m / ep
  • 3 seasons
  • 7.5/10

Behind every powerful image is a powerful story. Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and around the world as they push the limits of their craft.

Latest: Season 3 · 2018

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A look behind the photographs of talented Australian and North American photographers to see exactly what goes into capturing a powerful image.

  1. E1. Children In Need: Part 1

    Aug 26, 2018 · 23m

    Documenting impoverished, at-risk children for UNICEF, photographer Simon Lister is joined in Bangladesh by goodwill ambassador Orlando Bloom.

  2. E2. Children In Need: Part 2

    Sep 16, 2018 · 23m

    Simon and Orlando continue their Bangladesh trip, visiting a makeshift school and photographing young children working in hazardous jobs for low pay.

  3. E3. Paradise in Peril: Part 1

    Sep 2, 2018 · 23m

    Undersea photographer Shawn Heinrichs fights to preserve the rapidly vanishing diversity of ocean life by capturing its beauty in dazzling images.

  4. E4. Paradise in Peril: Part 2

    Sep 16, 2018 · 23m

    Shawn continues his quest to conserve marine wildlife by capturing some arresting manta ray pictures in the Raja Ampat Islands of Indonesia.

  5. E5. Preserving Indigenous Culture: Part 1

    Sep 9, 2018 · 23m

    Dylan River continues a family tradition of filmmaking focused on the Aboriginal people of his native Australia with a tour of ancient rock art sites.

  6. E6. Preserving Indigenous Culture: Part 2

    Sep 16, 2018 · 23m

    Dylan journeys into Arnhem Land, where he participates in a welcoming ritual and films the customs and tribal lifeways of the Yolngu people.

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