Bio

Freelance photographer, Thomas Morel-Fort works mainly on long term documentary projects. ​Between 2013 and 2016 he worked as an employee of Le Parisien to cover national news. In 2015 he began his first long term project on Filipina domestic workers. For this investigation, he was hired undercover as a domestic worker alongside Donna, immersing himself for more than a month in the villa of a rich Libyan family on the French Riviera. The Camille Lepage Prize received at Visa in 2019 enabled him to travel to the Philippines to follow the families of the women he met in France. In 2020, he graduate of the Le Manoir training course for journalists in conflict zones at the Bayeux Festival of War Correspondents While continuing to cover the news (Rohingya crisis, yellow vests movement, conflict in Ukraine) in collaboration with A.de Russé, with whom he founded LE HUBLOT (jazz musicians composing on photographs), he begins a work on the artists with a large format camera. This project is the winner of the national order of the BNF, Radioscopie de la France. AWARDS : 2023 SIENNA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS 2023 : 2nd place in “Story-telling” WORLD REPORT AWARD 2023 : Shorlist in “Short stories” PHOTOGRAPHIES OF THE YEAR AWARD APPF / Winner - Humanist for its coverage of the conflict in Ukraine. ​VISA POUR L'IMAGE FESTIVAL /Perpignan Screening for the subject ARTS VIVANTS ! in large format camera INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS IPA / First place in editorial press sport Exhibition in Sienna ( IT), New York ( USA) 2022 POYI PICTURE OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL : 1st prize in the Sport Story category ISTANBUL PHOTO AWARDS: 2nd prize in the Sport Story category Winner of the BNF national commission, Radioscopie de la France ​Exhibition in FESTIVAL DELLA FOTOGRAFIA ETICA, Italy. ​VISA POUR L'IMAGE FESTIVAL /Perpignan Screening for the story of Fallou Diop Exhibitions in Paris, New York and Ankara for story of Fallou Diop 2021 WORLD REPORT AWARD 2022 / Finalist in the spot light category for his long term project DONNA , A FILIPINA LIFE OF SACRIFICE CAMERA CLARA PRIZE / Finalist For the photographic project made in collaboration with Axelle De Russé "Culture a disenchanted world". CARITAS PRIZE / Finalist for the project "DONNA , A FILIPINA Life of Sacrifice 2020 VISA POUR L'IMAGE FESTIVAL /Perpignan Screening in the framework of the Camille Lepage Prize 2019 VISA D’OR CAMILLE LEPAGE VISA POUR L IMAGE PRIZE / Winner for the project "FILIPINAS , A global market of domesticity APPF AWARD / Winner category reportage for its coverage of the "yellow vests" movement. ​2018 APPF AWARD / Winner Humanist category for its coverage of the Rohingya refugee crisis. ANI-PIXTRAKK AWARD VISA / Finalist 2017 LAGARDERE GRANT AWARD / Finalist MENTOR AWARD / Finalist 2016 DAYS JAPAN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM / Finalist for its coverage of the Bataclan attack. ​