PHOTOGRAPHY
storytelling - art - activism
storytelling - art - activism
Misogyny In Music, 2025
Misogyny in Music is an investigative photo, video interview series and article written, produced and directed by Eliza Hatch for Glamour, looking into how widespread discrimination is within the music industry.
In 2025, we’ve seen men dominating headline acts at major festivals across the world, women musicians have spoken out about abuse, double standards, unequal pay, and systematic underrepresentation. Misogyny is still alive and kicking – and the music industry is overdue for a reckoning. Read the article below.
Cheer Up Luv x Transkaters
In 2024, Eliza visited Transkaters monthly skate night at BaySixty6 to film and photograph some of the attendees. In the last two years there has been a 37.5% increase in reported anti-LGBT+ hate crimes according to the charity Galop, a figure which creates a barrier and has as a direct impact on how trans and queer people access and participate in sports.
The photo series was featured in The Guardian, Dazed and Diva Magazine
Photography by Eliza Hatch.
Don't Look Away:
16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence
In September 2018, Cheer Up Luv partnered with the United Nations Population Fund on a mission to Sri Lanka, to interview 16 women about their experiences with sexual harassment on public transport. The outcome was an online and offline campaign, releasing each woman's story, portrait and video interview every day over the 16 Days of Activism.
The campaign won a Webby for Best Individual Editorial Feature and was viewed online by more than 10 million people online. It was also featured by Hundred Heroines, Refinery 29, UN News and Lecture In Progress.
Cheer Up Luv x Plan UK: #CrimeNotCompliment
To celebrate the hard work of youth activists who tirelessly campaigned to pass the Protection from Sex Based Harassment in Public Bill law, Eliza teamed up with Plan UK to photograph five of their campaigners.
The #CrimeNotCompliment campaign was launched in partnership with grassroots, youth-led organisation Our Streets Now. Young people have been at the heart of the social and online campaign - and this photo series highlights their experiences campaigning and hopes for the future around the public safety of women and girls in the UK. See more of the campaign below.
#FrontlineHarassment is a Cheer Up Luv Photo series focusing on the experiences of key workers. With the intense praise and pressure essential workers faced during the pandemic, this series documents the stories from the frontline that rarely take centre stage.
The #FrontlineHarassment photo series was put together with a mixture of socially distanced in person shoots in London and FaceTime shoots UK wide, in line with Covid-19 restrictions. The testimonies on this page are just a handful that represent the many key workers, who are subjected to routine harassment whilst going about their jobs.
This photo series has been featured in Dazed, The Independent and It's Nice That.
Photography by Eliza Hatch.
Cheer Up Luv, 2017- present
Cheer Up Luv is a globally renowned photo series and platform retelling accounts of street harassment. The project combines photography with journalism, activism, and social media, and has gained interest from all over the world.
Eliza Hatch founded the campaign after being told to "cheer up" by a stranger in the street. When her male friends dismissed the experience as a “compliment", Eliza felt inspired to prove them wrong. She realised that not only was the issue completely normalised, but there was a huge lack of awareness surrounding it.
Eliza began taking portraits of her friends in public places and posting the photos online. With each location reflecting the testimony of harassment, the effect was empowering survivors by turning a negative memory into something positive. But most importantly, taking back control and reclaiming the space.
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