 My name is Henry Hargreaves and I'm a photographer and food artist. All my aunts and mum and her sisters all did art in one form or another. My mother was an embroiderer. One of the aunts was also head of the art department at the sister school to where I went to school at. So in the weekends I would go and use the photography darkroom. So there was a lot of that kind of creative stuff going on when I was growing up. And so it was always kind of, you know, really encouraged. So this was when I was at high school and I won the Independent Schools Festival of Music poster competition. When you're young you kind of have a thought that good art is almost realistic. And so everyone was trying to draw great pictures of instruments or musicians. And I just did this little collage made out of, you know, notes. But it's when things started to connect where it was ideas were kind of stronger than the execution. After high school I really didn't know what my direction was going to be. And so when I graduated from university I got a one-way ticket to London. But on the way to London I got a stop in Bangkok. I got approached by a guy who was a stylist and they were looking for models for a shoot. And asked me if I was a model and no I wasn't. Would I be interested? And I did three shoots while I was over there. One of the great things about modelling was it kind of gave you a very privileged view of a lot of cities and places. My travelling occupation that I always had when I needed money was a bartender. So I'd also had this experience working in restaurants for a long time. So when I first started doing photography I started trying to shoot fashion because that was what I knew. I come from the fashion background. But still life was something I enjoyed much more. And I started to get asked to shoot food for the restaurants I was working in. For friends who opened restaurants to do it. Everyone has all these emotions tied up with food. And I think there's all these narratives that can be used to be told with food. And you know just showing people food in a different way than they're used to seeing it becomes much more memorable. And I'm really attracted to things that are humorous and playful and fun. And I also feel that stuff is successful if it puts a smile on someone's face. If they smile and laugh they're engaged and if they're engaged they remember. As a photographer you want to be the most proud of your most recent work. You know because I feel that's the way you know you're always evolving. And to get a response from things online is just kind of validates what you've done. I'm Henry Highgraves and this is my story.
 My name is Henry Hargreaves and I'm a photographer and food artist.
 All my aunts and mum and her sisters all did art in one form or another.
 My mother was an embroiderer.
 One of the aunts was also head of the art department at the sister school to where I went to school at.
 So in the weekends I would go and use the photography darkroom.
 So there was a lot of that kind of creative stuff going on when I was growing up.
 And so it was always kind of, you know, really encouraged.
 So this was when I was at high school and I won the Independent Schools Festival of Music poster competition.
 When you're young you kind of have a thought that good art is almost realistic.
 And so everyone was trying to draw great pictures of instruments or musicians.
 And I just did this little collage made out of, you know, notes.
 But it's when things started to connect where it was ideas were kind of stronger than the execution.
 After high school I really didn't know what my direction was going to be.
 And so when I graduated from university I got a one-way ticket to London.
 But on the way to London I got a stop in Bangkok.
 I got approached by a guy who was a stylist and they were looking for models for a shoot.
 And asked me if I was a model and no I wasn't. Would I be interested?
 And I did three shoots while I was over there.
 One of the great things about modelling was it kind of gave you a very privileged view of a lot of cities and places.
 My travelling occupation that I always had when I needed money was a bartender.
 So I'd also had this experience working in restaurants for a long time.
 So when I first started doing photography I started trying to shoot fashion because that was what I knew.
 I come from the fashion background.
 But still life was something I enjoyed much more.
 And I started to get asked to shoot food for the restaurants I was working in.
 For friends who opened restaurants to do it.
 Everyone has all these emotions tied up with food.
 And I think there's all these narratives that can be used to be told with food.
 And you know just showing people food in a different way than they're used to seeing it becomes much more memorable.
 And I'm really attracted to things that are humorous and playful and fun.
 And I also feel that stuff is successful if it puts a smile on someone's face.
 If they smile and laugh they're engaged and if they're engaged they remember.
 As a photographer you want to be the most proud of your most recent work.
 You know because I feel that's the way you know you're always evolving.
 And to get a response from things online is just kind of validates what you've done.
 I'm Henry Highgraves and this is my story.