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The BBC’s six-part television series, The Genius of Photography, premiers tonight (Thursday, 25 October, 2007) on BBC Four at 9pm GMT.

Tonight’s programme is Fixing the Shadows:

Photography first came to life in Venice where Abe Morell used bin-liners and masking tape to turn a room into a camera—but the images created were transitory.

Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre discovered how to ‘fix the shadows’ to produce permanent images and at that moment photography was born.

Fixing the Shadows follows the birth of photography through to the age of mass photography triggered by the creation of Kodak by George Eastman.

See the BBC’s overview for more information.

"Video Nation teamed up with BBC Four to produce a series of shorts about Lomography, to coincide with the Happy Snappy Days exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London."

While the off-the-shelf "Lomographer" identity thing makes me want to fucking puke and I think it should die in a car fire, it is an interesting set of videos. Watch them online at bbc.co.uk.