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Hazel Thompson
Hazel Thompson is an award-winning British photojournalist based in London. After starting her career in 1997 with a local newspaper in South London, Thompson moved on to freelance focusing on editorial and commercial assignments worldwide. She gained experience by photographing a wide spectrum of people, from children of prostitutes in the brothels of Bombay to Tony Blair and Prince Andrew at key events in London.
Her reportage work centers around social issues, identity, religion and humanitarian subjects. Thompson's assignments took her all over the U.K., India, America, South Africa and Eastern Europe and had her working closely with charities such as Jubilee Action and Romanian Angel Appeal.
Thompson's work has been published in magazines like The Sunday Times Magazine, BBC Top Gear Magazine, British Journal of Photography and HQ Australia, in addition to other publications in America, Greece and Italy.
Her long-term project, Modern Crusaders, documents Christianity in different social forms of iconic society. Her resulting stories, including Bikers for God and Cowboys for Christ, were praised by judges who awarded her the Observer Hodge Photographic Award 2001 and The Sunday Times Ian Parry Award 2002. These series subsequently exhibited in Proud Central and Tom Blau Galleries in London. In 2003, Thompson came highly commended for the Ian Parry Award for the second year running for her Innocents Delivered photo essay on children of prostitutes being rescued from the red-light area in Bombay, India. The Sunday Times Magazine has subsequently put this story forward for the 2004 Amnesty International Award.
Her work titled Hidden Legacy, which documented HIV-infected teens who face social exclusion in Romania, was showcased as part of the Forum - Words Are Too Slow exhibition at Proud Central Gallery (U.K.) from July 22 through September 2, 2004. Thompson's other main projects include the Modern Crusaders series (a continuing body of work), which includes Bikers for God, Cowboys for Christ, Spirit Surfers and Hip Hop Preachers; Innocents Delivered; Ace Cafe Revival; Day in a Life of a British Mountie and Hidden Legacy. In 2005, Thompson won First Prize in the Observer Hodge Photographic Awards for her exclusive reportage Lost Teen Prisoners -- a shocking story about the cruel fate 68,000 children face as they serve time Philippine prisons.
Thompson is represented around the world by eyevine.
zReportage Stories:
Road to Redemption
Lost Innocence
Lost Teen Prisoners
Lost in Romania
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