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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a Great City: Revealed

Birmingham was host to the 2022 Commonwealth Games. It was always 'a great city' from a nineteenth century 'city of a thousand trades' to a twenty-first century diverse and cultural place to be. Partially by accident and partially by design, this project celebrates the more recent growth.

In association with the Library of Birmingham, Michael Hallett produced these photographs over a twenty-year period for publication to support the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The exhibition was shown at the Library of Birmingham for eight-months from early-September 2021 to late-April 2022.

A travelling version of the original exhibition is being updated using six of the original themed storyboards plus many new individual images to complete the narrative of this great city.