#454 LAST MEAL REQUESTS: NO SECONDS!
FEATURING FOOD PHOTOGRAPHER AND ARTIST HENRY HARGREAVES
Today, I’m joined by Henry Hargreaves, a visual artist and food photographer known for his boundary-pushing photography projects that are often and sometimes literally deliciously simple, tackling complex social and commercial issues. One of his most thought-provoking works, No Seconds, explores the haunting last meals of death row inmates. With a unique blend of this simplicity and deep social commentary, this project invites us to reflect on mortality, choice, and humanity in unexpected and impactful ways.
Also from the mailbag, Adam Hanson finds renewed mental health through walking and photography, Mike Mixon is finding detail in his pictures he doesn’t remember seeing when he took them, John Kenny has some thoughts about covert pictures of strangers for a street project, some news about The Photowalk on Substack and Mike Miller has found a song that 34 years before the first recognisable modern social media channel came into our consciousness was giving advice about how we could best deal with the demands of a life watched over by algorithms.
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MORE ABOUT names, words, THE MUSIC and places FROM TODAY’S SHOW
Hope in Creativity by Hannah Gimblett.
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer.
Steven Meisel is an American fashion photographer, who obtained popularity and critical acclaim with his work in Vogue and Vogue Italia.
Alex John Beck is a fashion and editorial photographer, with a background in commercial advertising, digital design, and photojournalism.
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup art installation story.
Thomas Ruff is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images".
First published in 1992, Sally Mann’s Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential.
Pepper No. 30 is a black and white photograph and is one of the best-known photographs taken by Edward Weston. It depicts a solitary green pepper.
WWF’s Prescription for Nature; 20 minutes of nature a day can improve your mental wellbeing.
Wolfgang Strassl appears in episode 453, talking about his project Underground Portraits.
Zed Nelson’s Right-wing along the Rio Grande project.
MUSIC LINKS: Beauregard sang and wrote the playout song today Paper Planes. Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist.
HENRY HARGREAVES
Four pictures from the No Seconds art project above, concept by Henry Hargreaves.
Above, Fallout of the Food System, one of the projects discussed on the show today.
A collaboration with Trump?
ADAM HANSON
Adam’s beloved walking and photographic buddies, Ghost (left) and Roux (right).
MICHAEL MIXON
The surprises that photographs bring, a story told in today’s episode about this picture above.
NEALE JAMES
Sketchbook pictures made today during the Photowalk show.
VIDEO LIBRARY
The following videos/subjects are referenced within today’s show.
The song Mike Miller suggested had relevant lyrics for how we could deal with our approach to social media posting.
Beauregard’s Paper Planes, the playout song today.
“This is a legitimate list of everything Hunter S Thompson put into his body on an 'average day,' according to his biographer E. Jean Carroll.” A film/project by Henry Hargreaves.
