1964
Retired as an active photographer.

1958-1962
Worked as a freelance advertising photographer

1941-1957
Photographer for Picture Post 

1940
Founder of the Criterion Press with Bertran Collins

1936-1940
Photographer for the General Photographic Agency (GPA)

1930s
Photographer for The Bicycle Magazine

1927-1936
Messenger, developer and printer for the Central Photographic Service, London.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2013
Bert Hardy: Centenary Exhibition, The Photographers' Gallery, London


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010
Unpopular Culture, The Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

2003
The Golden Age of Reportage, Getty Image Gallery, London

1955
The Family of Man, MoMA, New York