Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Long before the days of drone photography, the first aerial photographs were captured by dare devil photographers hanging out of planes and helicopters.

Photojournalist and co-curator of our Fit to Print exhibition, Mike Bowers, shares George Bell’s experience taking aerial photos on glass plates in 1911.

Discover more stories of early photojournalism in our Fit to Print exhibition: https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/fit-print-defining-moments-fairfax-photo-archive-selected-mike-bowers