He is the author of two books of street photography, The Human Fragment[1] and Michael Sweet's Coney Island.

He taught in public schools in Montreal, Quebec, from 2003 to 2015 and founded Learning for a Cause,[2][3] which earned him two of Canada's highest civilian honors for service to education, A Prime Minister's Awards for Teaching Excellence[4] and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal.

[8] Sweet has made grainy black-and-white,[9] oddly-framed, gritty,[10] low-fi,[11] close-up street photography.

He is the author of two street photography monographs, The Human Fragment,[14] and Michael Sweet's Coney Island.

In 2021, Sweet appeared in the film, Fill The Frame, a documentary about street photography in New York City.