• SUNDAY MAY 3 @ 9 PM
• U.S., 2007
• Director: Barbara Leibovitz
• Duration: 81 minutes

This documentary traces the arc of Leibovitz's photographic life, her aspirations to artistry and the trajectory of her career. The film depicts the various phases that shaped her life, including childhood, the tumultuous sixties, her transition from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair magazine, and later, her most significant personal relationships, including motherhood. The documentary's highlights centre on interviews with her most famous subjects (Susan Sontag, Bill Clinton, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and others), and mentors and colleagues - along with personal insight from Leibovitz herself - to reveal the evolution of inarguably one of today's most influential visual artists.

• MONDAY MAY 4 @ 10 PM
• U.K., 2007
• Director: Tim Kirby, Deborah Lee, and Chris Rodley
• Duration: 59 minutes

A comprehensive insight into one of the world's most influential art forms. The first episode uncovers some of the key inventions of photography and the way in which it became an integral part of the modern world - not just by documenting but also by changing the way people understood their world. There's also a look at pioneer photographers, including George Eastman, who made photography available to the masses with the invention of the Kodak brand camera.

• WEDNESDAY MAY 6 @ 10PM
• Canada, 2008
• Duration: 47 minutea
• Director: Siu Ta

Hai Tran fell in love with 3-D photography and spent his life sharing its wonders with as many people as possible. His passion for photography began as a child in Vietnam, continued when he fled with his young family in a small boat with three cameras and a suitcase of photographs, and culminated in Calgary where he eventually opened one of Canada's largest vintage camera stores.

• THURSDAY MAY 7 @ 10PM
• U.S., 2006
• Director: Jack Youngelson and Peter Sutherland
• Duration: 56 minutes

Tierney Gearon's photographs have been called manipulative, disturbingly ambiguous, even perverse. The London police demanded that the Saatchi Gallery, which first showed the offending photos of her young children, take the pictures down. This documentary follows Tierney over the course of three years as she assembles her new body of work, a project that features her mother, and promises to be even more provocative than the photos that originally made her career.

• SUNDAY MAY 10 @ 9 PM
• U.S., 2007
• Director: Ian McLuskey
• Duration: 57 minutes

She was beautiful, smart, and searching. He was an emerging genius in the world of photography. When they met, they fell instantly in love. Setting off across the West with camera and typewriter in the depths of the Great Depression, Charis Wilson and Edward Weston transformed photography, and each other. Now age 90, Charis Wilson recounts her years with Weston with humor, candor, and some regret. "Eloquent Nude" presents an intimate look at the making of Modern photography.

• SUNDAY MAY 10
• Germany, 2004
• Director: Joachim Haupt
• Duration: 26 minutes

The life of Edward Weston, on the trail in California. A journey to Carmel and Point Lobos, to the sand-dunes of Oceano and through the bizarre rocky outcrops of Death Valley. And a very personal history of modern American photography.

• MONDAY MAY 11 @ 10 PM
• U.K., 2007
• Director: Tim Kirby, Deborah Lee, and Chris Rodley
• Duration: 59 minutes

How the art form's precise, objective and apparently machine-like qualities were utilised to promote the radical utopia of the Soviet Union and bring order and clarity to the chaos of Weimar in Germany. However, while some prized the medium for its ability to document, others were using it to explore the irrational, the subjective and the surreal - photography's natural language

• MONDAY MAY 13 @ 10 PM
• U.S., 2003
• Director: Nancy Schiesari
• Duration: 54 minutes

The compelling tale of a pioneering woman photojournalist who created some of the most indelible images of 20th C America. A German immigrant who arrived in the midst of the Great Depression, she rose to become a celebrated LIFE magazine staff photographer, only the second woman to occupy that position. Mieth courageously carved out a career in the male-dominated world of photojournalism at a time when very few women were accepted in the profession.

• THURSDAY MAY 14 @ 10PM
• Australia, 2005
• Director: Kathy Drayton
• Duration: 55 minutes

Girl in a Mirror documents the work of 1970's photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short by illness. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.. Tracing the rapid rise from gifted student to fully fledged taboo-shattering artist, the film explores the way in which her work and personal journey documented the turbulent 70's counter culture.

• SUNDAY MAY 17 @ 9PM
• U.S., 2005
• Director: Steven Cantor
• Duration: 1:20 minutes

This provocative film is a meditation on death that explores the way in which nature assimilates the body once life has left it, while directly confronting American attitudes towards dying. It includes: photographs examining the scars left on Mann's property after an armed fugitive shoots himself; ominous landscapes from a Civil War battlefield; a forensics study site showing the process of human decomposition; images of the bones and skin of a departed pet greyhound; and, in a closing, life-affirming gesture, close-up portraits of her children.

• MONDAY MAY 18 @ 10 PM
• U.K., 2007
• Director: Tim Kirby, Deborah Lee, and Chris Rodley
• Duration: 59 minutes

How photographers dealt with the dramatic and tragic events of the Second World War including D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima. Magnum legends Philip Jones Griffiths and Susan Meisalas, soldier-photographer Tony Vaccaro and broadcaster Jon Snow consider the questions extraordinary pictures raise about history, as seen through the viewfinder.

• WEDNESDAY MAY 20 @ 10PM
• U.K., 2005
• Director: Paul Yule
• Duration 1:18 minutes

O. Winston Link took elegant black-and-white nighttime photographs of the last of the great steam locomotives as they chugged across small-town America in the 1950s. Link married Conchita Mendoza when he was 73 and she 48. Conchita began marketing the photographs for profit while becoming sexually entangled with another man all the time keeping Link captive and incommunicado in his basement darkroom. The film is an investigation into personality, crime, marriage, art, and the ever-malleable nature of truth.

• THURSDAY MAY 21 @ 10PM
• Canada, 2002
• Director: Jennifer Baichwal
• Duration: 58 minutes

This film is an introduction to the work of renowned photographer Shelby Lee Adams. Born in Eastern Kentucky, Adams devoted 30 years of his life making portraits of families living in Appalachia, those who have been misrepresented in the media and derogatorily referred to as "hillbillies." A provocative exploration of Appalachian life, it makes us question the meaning of art itself.

• SUNDAY MAY 24 @ 9PM
• US., 2002
• Director: Ric Burns
• Duration: 1:36 minutes

Ric Burns's "Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film" chronicles the photographer's life from his hyperactive youth to his early career struggles, and from his maturing art to his contemporary impact. The film details Adams's father's influence on his genius son, Adams's tough decision between the concert piano and photography, his marriage to Virginia Best, his relationship with famed contemporary Alfred Stieglitz, his eventual successes in photography exhibition and book printing, and finally his activism in the environmental movement.

• MONDAY MAY 25 @ 10 PM
• U.K., 2007
• Director: Tim Kirby, Deborah Lee, and Chris Rodley
• Duration: 59 minutes

Journeys that inspired the production of some highly acclaimed photographic works, including Robert Frank's odyssey through Fifties America, William Klein's walk around the pavements of New York, Garry Winogrand's charting of the human comedy in Central Park Zoo and William Eggleston's guide to Memphis and the American South. Part of The Art of Arts TV week.

• WEDNESDAY MAY 27 @ 10 PM
• U.S. 2008
• Director: Cosima Spender
• Duration: 59 minutes

A culture seen through a camera lens: Malian photographer Malick Sidibe's snapshots from the late 1950s through to the early 1970s capture the carefree spirit of youth asserting their freedom from colonialism in the early days of Malian independence - until a coup ushered in decades of austere military dictatorship.

• THURSDAY MAY 28 @ 10PM
• Switzerland, 2000
• Director: Julian Benedikt
• Duration: 58 minutes

A revealing look at the art of photographer Helmut Newton, including candid interviews with many of his famous and varied subjects. The film is centred on the release of his book SUMO, the most expensive ever produced. Newton's photographs are always a provocative and controversial study.

• SUNDAY MAY 31 @ 9PM
• Canada, 2006
• Director: Jennifer Baichwal
• Duration: 1:26 minutes

Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" -- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams -- Edward Burtynsky creates beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. This film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. Burtynsky's photographs allow us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.