In Berlin in 1927, Man started work as an illustrator and graphic designer for the BZ newspaper and for Tempo.
[5] Man toured North Africa, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic, from where he delivered his photo reports for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.
In 1933, he returned to Berlin and received no work permit because he refused to enter the Reichspressekammer and so he emigrated to England in May 1934.
After his emigration in 1934, he met Stefan Lorant in London, where he was editor of the refounded Weekly Illustrated and within six months published 47 image reports.
He then moved to the Daily Mirror, where he remained until 1938, to then work under the direction of Stefan Lorant as a chief photographer at Picture Post,[4] with 100–150 annual photo reports.
[citation needed] During his career, Man took portrait photographs of leading political and cultural figures such is Clement Attlee, William Beveridge, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, T. S. Eliot, Oskar Kokoschka, David Lloyd George, John Masefield, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, George Orwell, Dame Sybil Thorndike, and Evelyn Waugh, some of which are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.