[2] He was born on 15 July 1958 in Aden in Yemen, where his father (Group Captain T. L. Bingham-Hall) was in command of the Royal Air Force base.

As a rock and roll photographer, Bingham-Hall worked with bands like Radio Birdman and The Saints.

His cover photograph of the Radio Birdman album Living Eyes[3] is a classic of the underground rock scene in Australia.

[5] He also wrote Austral Eden[6] in this period - an idiosyncratic history of Australian architecture, and contributed articles to magazines in Australia and England.

Majority of his early books for Pesaro were produced in collaboration with Philip Goad,[9] an architectural writer and academic from Melbourne.