Description

Dr Mark Hall is an award-winning commercial advertising photographer. His practice has spanned three decades since graduating from Blackpool College in the mid 1980’s. In that time, he has travelled extensively and been commissioned by many top advertising agencies, design groups and editorial clients across the world. He began teaching in 2000 after completing and MA at the London College of Printing and in 2018 successfully finished a PhD on the hegemony of light in photography. He is currently a Fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts and a Fellow of the British Institute of Photography. His work as a photographer has featured in The Association of Photographers (AOP) and Design and Art Direction Awards (D&AD) and his students have also won numerous awards. He was voted AOP lecturer of the year for portrait work of big game hunters shot across Africa. His research interests include the technical language of photography, the implied structures of power inherent in the way light is used in photography and the critical theory of commercial photography.