Gibson Hazard

Videographer and Photographer

Hear about the story of how this young man started taking photos for small artits to working with some of the biggest artists in the industry.

Working with the likes of Drake, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Nas X, Nike, and many many more.

Meet the designer

Gibson Hazard is a little different from the other designers that I interviewed and researched. He is a

25-year-old collage drop out who started his career at the age of 16 when he was running a page on ebay. He was selling posters that he found on the internet and edited. He was soon sent a cease and desist letter by a management group called Revels Group because Hazard had used a label cover of one of their clients. He stop selling on ebay and started taken photos for performers and concerts. He had always been interested in photography. He would work as hard as he could on his photography. Because he dropped out of college all his free time he his used going to concerts and taking pictures of artists performing. According to the Rolling Stone magazine, Gibson was able to start getting noticed after he took photos for Sammy Adams. Sammy Adams is an American rapper and singer who shared the photos that Hazard took and told who took them. Hazard started getting recognized. Gibsons life stared to change very quickly after this.

Starting in the design field

After the photos shared by Sammy Adams Hazard got asked to take photos for William Bolton, a European pop singer. Hazard was asked to join them on the 2016 tour. While on tour he was asked to vlog Boltons activities. Hazard hadn’t ventured into videography yet but he said in a GQ interview from 2021

“You know how when you haven’t done something before, you don’t think about the right way to do it, you just start and figure it out as you go? When I was on tour at the beginning, I’d never made a video in my life.”

After this tour Hazard started getting more into videography. He started make short films teaching himself as much as he could.

In 2018 Hazard was hired by Drake to help out on his Aubrey and the three Amigos world tour. This was a one of his most notable jobs that really started his career with working with major artists and brands. The tiring process took six weeks long where he was working non stop. He help in making a video for the tour and graphics. The video can be found on his YouTube or on his website gibsonhazard.com.

Working with celebrities/Brands

Not so long after working with Drake Hazard was asked to make a commercial for an NFL spot for Nike. It was sound-tracked by Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode.” This can also be seen on his website. During this time he was really only editing pre-recorded footage.

That was until 2020 when rapper Lil Uzi Vert came across some of Hazards old work that he had put out on YouTube and got in contact with him. Uzi wanted Hazared to make a music video for one of the songs on off his new album Eternal Atake, that was supposed to be dropping later that year. Working with Uzi on this video was one of the first times that Hazard had work with a real set and real budget.

He said in a interview with Complex:

“I’m used to doing all of this myself pretty much. It was definitely a whole new experience. But, it was mad cool.”

Working with Uzi help Hazard to gain a new friend in the industry for future projects. Hazard told Complex

“The ultimate goal was just to build out a really specific visual world for the album to live in. I want to make shit that absolutely fucks people up, and blows their minds and just make them want to throw their phones after watching it, because it’s so crazy,” Hazard tells

Complex. “I’ve been really inspired by the idea of movie trailers recently. I always feel like I’m wasting time watching movies because they’re so slow. I like trailers much more because the goal is to put as much crazy shit as you can in a short amount of time which I really like, and I really connect with.”

Working on this video really helped him change his love from photography to videography. He found that making videos was his real passion. Saying:

“They were trash and they didn’t sell. But I ended up just falling in love with concert photography. I went to Chapman University for two months and then I dropped out. The photography thing wasn’t going that well. I realized I had to make a change, and video was that change.”

Making videos was the right choice for Hazard. This would get him to be well know for his great work. His type of videos made him stand out among the rest. He would create crazy video visuals that would contain anything from giant scorpions appearing on stage with artists to people flying out of the sky. Because of his insane and out of the box visuals he got many other jobs of working with people like Call of Duty making a video for the Call of Duty: Warzone video game, making a video for the 2021 Grammys, and working with Dr. Dre to make a tribute video for Kobe Bryant. All these videos can be found on Hazards Y ouTube or on his website. Hazards website contains all of his biggest videos and acts almost as a portfolio for his work. On his website you can also find a link to his YouTube where he has all his other video projects. He also has his Twitter, Instagram, and Email linked for future employers to reach out. This is how I was able to get in contact with him.

Unfortunately for me when he first replayed he told me that he would be happy to help but was soon caught up in new work and was unable to contact me again. This would make sense though because he was currently working on his newest project which was a music video for Lil Uzi Verts latest release a song titled “Just wanna rock” In this video the rapper Uzi is driving a large tank around downtown New York City. For this video

Downtown New York City had to be shut down because there were so many fans showing up to try to be apart of the video. Cops showed up and some of the fans even got hurt as seen at the end of the video one of the fans there was talked to and he said that he was pepper sprayed yet the young fan said:

“We were right up there, that shit was crazy”

And crazy it was. It is defiantly a must see video. Though so young Hazard has made quite the name for himself. He is currently signed under the Rivals group, which was the same team that sent young Hazard a sise and desist letter when he was running the eBay account. Hazard is consistently looking for new work and with his reputation it shouldn’t be that hard for him. He already has a fan base himself with hundreds of videos up on YouTube of people braking down his v ideos and trying to learn how he makes his unique visuals.