A quick note to our British readers.

The BBC is currently running a series on BBC Four about the history of photography called ‘The Genius of Photography‘. The first part of this six-part series ‘Fixing The Shadows’ aired last night, but it’s repeated on Monday at 8pm.

From the BBC site:

“In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography’s true genius.

Follow the story of photography in BBC Four’s six-part series ‘The Genius of Photography’. See some of the most famous photographs ever taken and find out more about what made them so very special.”

Defintely worth watching - or at least setting the video recorder / TiVo / PVR for!