Restaurants

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]

Model

While traveling, Henry was approached and recruited by a modeling agent.^[7] He modeled for Prada, YSL, Hermes, Lacoste, and Jil Sander.^[6][10][11] He modeled full-time for three years and was labeled one of the biggest models of 2002 and 2003.^[6][7][12]

Photographer

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.^[10][11] 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.^[13] 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][14][15][16][17]} Other still life photo series include Zen of Yoda, Deep-Fried Gadgets, and Game Over.^[16][18] 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.^[19]

Hargreaves featured his photography in exhibitions at the MAXXI in Rome ^[20][21] The Venice Biennale,^[22][23] Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, The Lunch Box Gallery in Miami, Florida, and Precinct 35 in New Zealand.^{[24][17][25][26]} Henry Hargreaves also makes short animated videos.^[5]

Coffee Cups of the World

Hargreaves also has a large collection of coffee cups^[27] 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.^[28][29][30]