Dr Hazel Frost FRPS retired as a full-time General Practitioner in May 2024. She has been a member of the RPS since 2003 when she achieved her Licentiate. She currently holds two Fellowships. The first was attainted in the Travel genre in 2014 when she was successful with a panel of images from Kolkata. The second was attained in the Documentary genre in 2023 with a panel showing Shipbuilding in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Since 2012, she has served as an assessor for the Licentiate panel, eventually being appointed as one of its Chairs. With the transition of the assessment process to an online digital format, she was recently selected to act as a Moderator, providing support and oversight to the Licentiate panel. In addition to her work with the Licentiate panel, she has been an assessor for the Travel Associate and Fellowship panels, and in 2020, she was appointed as Chair of the Travel Panel, reflecting her extensive expertise and leadership in these roles.
Her husband Dr James Frost FRPS was Regional Organiser for RPS Scotland for 12 years and Hazel co-ran it with him – arranging on average ten events per year, with an increasing membership each year. The region ran events spanning Scotland – taking the form of three advisory days, five photo forums, celebrations of distinctions, a Scottish Members print exhibition and a biannual two-day symposium. As a member of the Travel Group, she ran a Travel Blog for mutual critique for 11 years.
Hazel is an experienced traveller, and her interests lie in a style of documentary that focuses on the cultural aspects of countries. She has travelled to remote areas of Africa, and Asia amongst others. She works in projects and has ongoing bodies of work from India and Bangladesh, in particular Shipbuilding. With her husband she has spent time on several occasions photographing for the Calcutta Rescue Street Medicine teams who provide medical care to the slums of Kolkata. Images have then been given back to the Charity to support their work and for use on their website.
More recent interests have included photographing a small area of water and trees.
