12 photography docos to get your creative juices flowing

Inspiration and ideas are sometimes hard to come by, but there are plenty of great photography documentaries out there to inspire you.

A Reddit thread posted today by DoublB has collated a number of awesome docos that should give you inspiration and the frisson to get out there and shoot your next masterpiece.

Here's a selection of the most popular. Let us know if there's others you would recommend in the comments section.

 

'War Photographer' - Christian Frei, (2001)

 

'Tales By Light' series - (2015-2016)

 

Arctic Swell : Surfing the Ends of the Earth - Chris Burkard, (2014)

 

Climbing Ice : The Iceland Trifecta - Tim Kemple (2015)

 

Wildlife Photographer on the Hunt for the Perfect Shot - Michel d’Oultremont (2017)

 

The Salt of the Earth - Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders (2014)

 

Samsara – Ron Fricke (2011)

SAMSARA Theatrical Trailer from Baraka & Samsara on Vimeo.

Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof, Charlie Siskel (2013)

 

David Yarrow reveals his Photography secrets – Learn Photography (2016)

 

Landscape Photography On Location: Iceland. - Thomas Heaton (2015)

 

On the Job Training with Jimmy Chin – The North Face (2015)

 

Born Into Brothels - Zana Briski, Ross Kaufman (2012)