Henry Hargreaves (born 1979 is a Brooklyn-based artist and food photographer.[1][2] and is regarded as one of the best commercial and conceptual still life photographers of his generation.[3]
Early life and education
Henry Hargreaves grew up in New Zealand.[4][5][6] In high school, Christ's College in Christchurch, New Zealand, he took photography and then attended Canterbury University, earning a degree in American studies and film studies.[5][7][8]
Career
Restaurants
Hargreaves honed his bartending skills at the original Lone Star branch on Manchester Street in Christchurch, and then a bartender at Schiller's on the lower east side of Manhattan for three years after moving to New York.[9][10] Since then has become a partner in Jack's Wife Freda in Soho, Saint Mazie in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[10]
Model
While traveling, Henry was approached and recruited by a modeling agent.[8] He modeled for Prada, YSL, Hermes, Lacoste, and Jil Sander.[7][11][12] He modeled full-time for three years and was labeled one of the biggest models of 2002 and 2003.[7][8][13]
Photographer
With an approach focusing on storytelling and engaging visuals, New York-based Henry Hargreaves is regarded as one of the best commercial and conceptual still life photographers of his generation[14]. Hargreaves learned photography techniques from speaking with photographers and experimented with his own set.[5] He works out of a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and shoots for clients such as Ralph Lauren, NY Magazine, GQ, National Geographic, Boucheron, The New York Times, and Sagmeister.[11][12] He has photographed several cookbooks for Christina Tosi, Banny Bowien[15] and the Jack's Wife Freda cookbook.[16] Hargreaves uses food as a medium in his photo series, including: Burning Calories, Food of the Rainbow, Mark Rice-Ko, Jello-O presidents, Edible Subway, Bacon Alphabet, and No Seconds.[7][17][18][19][20] Other still life photo series include Zen of Yoda, Deep-Fried Gadgets, and Game Over.[19][21] In 2018 he used as inspiration the cakes familiar to him from his childhood made from the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book for the exhibition 'Birthday's that will never come' in Wellington.[22]
Hargreaves also has a large collection of coffee cups[30] and curates the Instagram feed @coffeecupsoftheworld. His collection has been exhibited at EEEEEATSCON in LA with The Infatuation and in New York at ORA Gallery.[31][32][33]
Awards and recognition
In 2012, Hargreaves worked on two Type Directors Club-winning projects.[34] Projects Hargreaves worked on won the award for advertising campaign and for poster.[34]
Hargreaves won the grand prize for the Budweiser Made in America R/W/B competition, curated by rapper Jay-Z's Life+Times website in 2012.[35][36][37]
In 2012, Henry Hargreaves' Food of the Rainbow was ranked number six in the Top Ten Most Viral Web Content on Trendland.[38]
2023, Burger Power Rankings condiment art for the LA Times won Silver at the 44th Annual Society for News Design Awards [39]LA Times
