Michael Hallett
A photographer, writer and teacher, Michael Hallett challenges the traditional concept of image making with the imagery he calls the ‘photo construction’. It was a sense of extreme frustration that led to his intellectual pursuit of how to extend the boundaries of time and space that a single exposure, single viewpoint photograph was unable to offer. The visual solution provides an innovative cutting-edge to the new media technologies and Michael has created a series of images of Birmingham buildings, public spaces and developments utilising the construction. As a photographic-historian Michael has completed a biography of “the godfather of photojournalism”, Stefan Lorant (1901 – 1997) and his book of photo constructions on the SEASIDE called Edges of England is work-in-progress. His own photography is presented in Bullring: the heart of Birmingham (Michael Hallett and Peter James, Tempus Publishing 2003).