Combining elements of fine art and documentary photography, Hazel Hankin’s work is widely published and exhibited. It is represented in numerous collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the MAK Center for Art & Architecture. In addition to her personal projects, Hazel carries out a variety of freelance assignments and teaches photography at the City College of New York.

During the 1990s Hazel traveled frequently to Cuba to record her impressions of Cuban life in a time of economic crisis and social transition. Her photo essay on Muhammad Ali’s humanitarian aid tour of Havana was published in the Graphis Press book of international photojournalism, The Human Condition. One of the images from this series, a photograph of Ali with Fidel Castro, was also included in Life's Album of the Year, 1996 and has recently been acquired by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In addition, a series of Hazel’s images that explore the innovative architecture of Cuba’s National Art Schools was exhibited in Havana, Los Angeles and New York and recently appeared in the World Monument Fund’s magazine, Icon.

Hazel’s current project, Rhythm & Rapture, brings together two of her passions: social dancing and photography. The images are visual interpretations of the sensations and emotions dancers feel doing salsa, swing and tango. Work from this project has been exhibited in a one-person show at the Houston Center for Photography and was featured in a DoubleTake magazine cover story as well as in the Spanish photography magazine, La Fotografía.