Michael Hyatt, Photographer

Since 1968, Michael Hyatt's work has ranged from street photography in Boston, Los Angeles, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Australia and Cuba to documenting the performances and backstage activities of prominent punk rock and roots rock bands in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1986. After moving to Arizona in late 1986, his camerawork focused on a variety of subjects including humanitarian efforts in the US/Mexico borderlands that produced the award winning book Migrant Artifacts... »MICHAEL'S FULL BIO

FEB-MAR 2023 The Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson is pleased to announce the exhibition MICHAEL HYATT - CROSSROADS: THE STREETS & MUSIC OF LOS ANGELES 1969–1981
330 S. Convent Ave.
Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 10-4, Sat: 12-5
Exhibition dates: 2/11 - 4/8/23
Reception & book signing: February 11, 7-10pm
Meet the artist: February 18 & 25 from 12–3

OCT 2022 New book published by Rose of Sharon Press in Los Angeles. Fifth and Wall Street: Skid Row, Los Angeles in the 1970s explores the lives of residents living in and near the Chapman Hotel during the 1970s. This first edition, limited to 100 signed books, includes forty B/W photographs and four documentary film stills, plus text describing the artistic and historic significance of the imagery before everything changed in the 1980s.
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JULY 2020 Writer's Room Recording presents the film Pictures at an Exhibition - 50 years of documentary and street photography by Michael Hyatt.

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AUGUST 2020 Singer/songwriter John Coinman’s new video Long Way From Home from his album Under the Sun features 15 photographs from Michael's book Along the Migrant Trail.

»see and buy still photographs from Along the Migrant Trail

MAY 2020 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards announces Along the Migrant Trail an Honorable Mention in the Culture Category. Additional distinctions include Grand Prize, da Vinci Eye and Montaigne Medal Finalist. »more info at erichoffer.com

OCT 2019 fronteranueva books in Los Angeles announces the publication of Michael Hyatt's documentary book: Along the Migrant Trail – A Borderlands Portrait. The book features 114 B/W and color photographs with a forward by scholar Rebecca Fowler Ph.D.
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"Michael Hyatt is a documentary photographer whose work exhibits more than words can express. In addition, Michael has been a leading volunteer for 17 years with Samaritans — the humanitarian aid organization dedicated to saving the lives of migrants in the Sonoran Desert. As he has hiked the hundreds of miles of migrant trails carrying life-saving water, food, and medical care, he has photographed courage, spirituality, suffering, and death in this beautiful and tragic land." —Reverend John Fife, Co-founder of Sanctuary, Tucson Samaritans, and No More Deaths

"The human will is what’s most evident in Michael Hyatt’s photographs. Depicting the principal actors in the real life and death struggle of our time, you feel the pain, the love, the hope and faith that can only come from a deep and long–time involvement as a humanitarian. His powerful images documenting the militarism and humanism in the Sonora and Arizona borderlands are an important contribution to our history." —Isabel Garcia, Co-founder of Derechos Humanos and winner of the 2018 UNAM Alfonso Garcia-Robles Human Rights Award

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UFW Prop 14 Campaign 1976
In 1975 the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) was formed to ensure peace in the fields by guaranteeing justice for all agricultural workers and stability in agricultural labor relations. But on April 3, 1976 the ALRB was shut down following the refusal of grower-friendly legislators to continue its funding. Recognizing the importance of the board, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers gathered 719,000 signatures to place...

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My Cuba: 1947 to 2017
In 2012 I made my first trip to photograph in Havana, Cuba with a Witness For Peace delegation. Our highly recommended educational tour there included visits to medical facilities, artist's studios and museums, lectures on the economy, organic farms, vocational schools and cultural events. I was inspired to go to Cuba by stories my mother told me about the time when my parents and I lived in Havana for 5 months during 1947. She was appalled by the extreme poverty...

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Michael Hyatt's Fifth & Wall Street portfolio

5th & Wall Street, Los Angeles 1972-1984
I began photographing on Skid Row in Los Angeles in 1972 in an effort to understand why my alcoholic grandfather kept going there, and then again after returning from Boston in 1974. It was then that I had the opportunity to work on a documentary film that Charles Pavlich was making about two residents of the Chapman Hotel on the corner of 5th and Wall Street. One of them was Leonard Graham, a chain smoker and heavy...

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Since 1968, Michael Hyatt's work has ranged from street photography in Boston, Los Angeles, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Australia and Cuba to documenting the performances and backstage activities of prominent punk rock and roots rock bands in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1986. After moving to Arizona in late 1986, his camerawork focused on a variety of subjects including humanitarian efforts in the US/Mexico borderlands that produced the award winning book Migrant Artifacts... »MICHAEL'S FULL BIO FEB-MAR 2023 The Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson is pleased to announce the exhibition MICHAEL HYATT - CROSSROADS: THE STREETS & MUSIC OF LOS ANGELES 1969–1981 330 S. Convent Ave. Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 10-4, Sat: 12-5 Exhibition dates: 2/11 - 4/8/23 Reception & book signing: February 11, 7-10pm Meet the artist: February 18 & 25 from 12–3 OCT 2022 New book published by Rose of Sharon Press in Los Angeles. Fifth and Wall Street: Skid Row, Los Angeles in the 1970s explores the lives of residents living in and near the Chapman Hotel during the 1970s. This first edition, limited to 100 signed books, includes forty B/W photographs and four documentary film stills, plus text describing the artistic and historic significance of the imagery before everything changed in the 1980s. »description »sample photos »buy JULY 2020 Writer's Room Recording presents the film Pictures at an Exhibition - 50 years of documentary and street photography by Michael Hyatt. »see and buy still photographs from the film AUGUST 2020 Singer/songwriter John Coinman’s new video Long Way From Home from his album Under the Sun features 15 photographs from Michael's book Along the Migrant Trail. »see and buy still photographs from Along the Migrant Trail MAY 2020 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards announces Along the Migrant Trail an Honorable Mention in the Culture Category. Additional distinctions include Grand Prize, da Vinci Eye and Montaigne Medal Finalist. »more info at erichoffer.com OCT 2019 fronteranueva books in Los Angeles announces the publication of Michael Hyatt's documentary book: Along the Migrant Trail – A Borderlands Portrait. The book features 114 B/W and color photographs with a forward by scholar Rebecca Fowler Ph.D. »description »sample photos »how to buy "Michael Hyatt is a documentary photographer whose work exhibits more than words can express. In addition, Michael has been a leading volunteer for 17 years with Samaritans — the humanitarian aid organization dedicated to saving the lives of migrants in the Sonoran Desert. As he has hiked the hundreds of miles of migrant trails carrying life-saving water, food, and medical care, he has photographed courage, spirituality, suffering, and death in this beautiful and tragic land." —Reverend John Fife, Co-founder of Sanctuary, Tucson Samaritans, and No More Deaths "The human will is what’s most evident in Michael Hyatt’s photographs. Depicting the principal actors in the real life and death struggle of our time, you feel the pain, the love, the hope and faith that can only come from a deep and long–time involvement as a humanitarian. His powerful images documenting the militarism and humanism in the Sonora and Arizona borderlands are an important contribution to our history." —Isabel Garcia, Co-founder of Derechos Humanos and winner of the 2018 UNAM Alfonso Garcia-Robles Human Rights Award
UFW Prop 14 Campaign 1976 In 1975 the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) was formed to ensure peace in the fields by guaranteeing justice for all agricultural workers and stability in agricultural labor relations. But on April 3, 1976 the ALRB was shut down following the refusal of grower-friendly legislators to continue its funding. Recognizing the importance of the board, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers gathered 719,000 signatures to place... »MORE My Cuba: 1947 to 2017 In 2012 I made my first trip to photograph in Havana, Cuba with a Witness For Peace delegation. Our highly recommended educational tour there included visits to medical facilities, artist's studios and museums, lectures on the economy, organic farms, vocational schools and cultural events. I was inspired to go to Cuba by stories my mother told me about the time when my parents and I lived in Havana for 5 months during 1947. She was appalled by the extreme poverty... »MORE 5th & Wall Street, Los Angeles 1972-1984 I began photographing on Skid Row in Los Angeles in 1972 in an effort to understand why my alcoholic grandfather kept going there, and then again after returning from Boston in 1974. It was then that I had the opportunity to work on a documentary film that Charles Pavlich was making about two residents of the Chapman Hotel on the corner of 5th and Wall Street. One of them was Leonard Graham, a chain smoker and heavy... »MORE
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