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my name is Henry Hayes 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 embroider one of the answers also hid at the art department at the sister school - where I went to school at so in the weekends I would go and use their photography darkroom and 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 was 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 winds 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 modeling was 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 open 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 used to seeing it becomes much more and I'm really attracted to things that are 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 laughs 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 hi graves and this is my story