Henry Hargreaves (photographer)

Hargreaves honed his bartending skills at the original Lone Star branch on Manchester Street in Christchurch, known for its giant portions, and was then a bartender at Schiller's on the lower east side of Manhattan for three years after moving to New York.[8][9] Since then has become a partner in Jack's Wife Freda in Soho, Saint Mazie in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[9] Butler Bakeshop in DUMBO [10]

While traveling, Henry was approached and recruited by a modeling agent.[7] He modeled for Prada, YSL, Hermes, Lacoste, and Jil Sander.[6][11][12] He modeled full-time for three years and was labeled one of the biggest models of 2002 and 2003.[6][7][13]

Hargreaves learned photography techniques from speaking with photographers and experimented with his own set.[4] 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] In 2010, he published the book 3DD: A 3-D Celebration of Breasts followed by 3DD Deluxe: Bigger and Better in 2011.[3][5] He also photographed the Jack's Wife Freda cookbook [14] 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.[6][15][16][17][18] Other still life photo series include Zen of Yoda, Deep-Fried Gadgets, and Game Over.[17][19] 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 an exhibition in Wellington.[20]

Hargreaves featured his photography in exhibitions at the MAXXI in Rome [21][22] The Venice Biennale,[23][24] Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, The Lunch Box Gallery in Miami, Florida, and Precinct 35 in New Zealand.[25][18][26][27] Henry Hargreaves also makes short animated videos.[5]

Hargreaves also has the fourth largest collection of coffee cups in the world[28] and curates the popular instagram feed @coffeecupsoftheworld His collection has been exhibited at EEEEEATSCON in LA with The Infatuation and in New York at ORA Gallery [29][30][31]