TAKEN is a groundbreaking photo documentary ebook by award winning photojournalist Hazel Thompson. Combining stunning photography and dramatic film footage, Taken is a multi touch digital book that includes audio commentaries, interactive maps & images and video interviews. Shot undercover over 11 years, it takes the reader inside Mumbai’s brothels, and behind their locked doors into Kamathipura, the city’s oldest and largest red light district.
Hazel Thompson has donated the worldwide profits from Taken to Jubilee Campaign and Bombay Teen Challenge for the rescue mission for girls and women trapped in Mumbai’s red light district. www.jubileecampaign.co.uk
CAGE- The Horror and the Hope
Photography book by Hazel Thompson
Hard Back Book - Published by Bombay Teen Challenge, India- 2010
Cage tells the story of three girls abducted into sex slavery in the cages of Kamathipura. The primary means of storytelling is through a series of dramatic photographs that share their journeys, from abduction to sex slavery and beyond. Hazel Thompson's harrowing and poignant photography and insightful story telling provides a call to action to Stop Sex Slavery.
All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Stop Sex Slavery campaign run by Bombay Teen Challenge, an organization whose purpose is to save the lives of the women and children caught in the grasp of Mumbai's sex trade, of teens lost on the streets of the bustling city, and of those who need even the most rudimentary help in order to see tomorrow.
Taking inspiration from James Joyce's 'Dubliners'', between November 2008 and March 2009, six teams of writers and photographers each took a physical space or community within Hanoi and set out - using words, photographs, video and sound - to tell the everyday stories of people they encountered. The project was funded by The British Council.
