| 1912 | Asia • Japan | The Aiyu Photography Club is founded in Nagota. |
| 1914 | Antarctica
| Frank Hurley accompanies Sir Earnest Shackleton's second Antarctic expedition. |
| 1915 | North America • USA
| The lake steamer Eastland rolls over in Chicago with the loss of 844 passengers and crew. (24 July 1915) |
| 1917 | North America • USA
| The photographs of Paul Strand are published in Camera Work, Number XLIX, Number L. |
| 1917 | North America • USA | Alfred Steiglitz publishes the last issue of Camera Work. During the years it was published (1903-1917) it was the most influential and well produced of any photographic magazine. |
| 1917 | Europe • Russia | Narkompros (the 'People's Commissariat for Education') is founded and puts publishing, media and dissemination under State control. |
| 1917 | Europe • Great Britain
| Alvin Langdon Coburn takes his Vortograph photographs that are among the first that play with light and are intentionally abstract. |
| 1918 | Europe • Switzerland | Christian Schad starts making abstract photographs by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing it. Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, calls them Schadographs but they come under the general heading of photograms. |
