PhD, MA and BA (Hons), Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Juliet Hacking began her academic career as a Visiting Lecturer (at the Universities of Derby and Reading, and the Courtauld Institute). In 1999 she took on a year-long research post at the National Portrait Gallery, London, where she also curated the exhibition and wrote the book 'Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield' (Prestel, 2000). From 2000 to 2003 she was a junior specialist in the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s auction house in London, becoming head of the department in 2003. She joined Sotheby's Institute of Art-London in 2006, and was the Program Director of the MA in Photography for 10 years. In 2016 she became a member of the MA in Contemporary Art faculty, in 2018 was appointed as its Program Director, and in 2022 became Global Program Director for the London and New York Contemporary Art programs.
She is the general editor of 'Photography: The Whole Story' (2012), author of 'Lives of the Great Photographers' (2015) [both Thames & Hudson], author of ‘Photography and the Art Market’ (Lund Humphries, 2018) and the co-editor of 'Photography & the Arts: Essays on 19th-Century Practices and Debates' (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is also co-series editor of 'Hot Topics in the Art World' (Sotheby’s Institute/Lund Humphries).
