Michael Hallett is involved with both pictures and words....

Michael Hallett is an academic, a professional image maker and an internationally published photohistorian. His involvement with communication and media, and a career in the theory and practice of art & design education, provides the environment for this storyteller using both pictures and words.

He has extensive experience in higher education in what is now De Montfort University, the Arts University Bournemouth, Manchester Metropolitan University, Birmingham City University, and also as Visiting Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

He has written continuously for the photographic press for almost five decades. His biographical trilogy on Stefan Lorant, the 'godfather of photojournalism', brought Lorant's work to a new public. Aa a cultural/photographic historian he is concerned with the images of others, with Bullring: the heart of Birmingham, and his A Great City exhibition he is involved with his his own photographic practice.

The Michael Hallett Archive is deposited along with his Stefan Lorant Collection at the Library of Birmingham (LoB), U.K.

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