In September 1956 Mike Hallett became a full-time commercial art & photography student at Bournemouth Municipal College of Art. This retrospective celebrates the seven decades that he has made photographs.

1956 to 1965: The apprenticeship years, including photographs of tanks embarking for Suez (1957), the Aldermaston march (1960), and the outcome of a Kodak Colour Scholarship (1964).

1966 to 1975: The American influence with particular reference to AMERICA, the exhibition of colour photographs held at the Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester (1972) with national reviews.

1676 to 1985: Academia takes over. Teaching full time at De Montfort University, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA, Manchester Metropolitan University and Birmingham City University. Portraits linked to published interviews, primarily for the British Journal of Photography and History of Photography magazines.

1986 to 1995: Creating with both pictures and words. Malvern Hills exhibition (1982). The Tall Ships race (1984). Links with Birmingham Central Library. Researching the Stefan Lorant biography which was published as Stefan Lorant: Godfather of Photojournalism (Scarecrow Press, 2006).

1996 to 2005: Into the digital age. Photo Constructions. Bullring (2003). Blackpool Ballroom (2003)).

2006 to 2015: The coffee Polaroid decade, Seaside exhibitions (2012). Olympic Coast (2014). Academic respectability: PhD by Published Work (2008).

2016 to 2026: Consolidation decade. Inconsequential Images. Theatre in the Street (2018).