HENNY GARFUNKEL
HENNY GARFUNKEL IS A NEW YORK BASED
PORTRAIT AND REPORTAGE/STREET PHOTOGRAPHER.
SINCE 1993, HENNY GARFUNKEL HAS PHOTOGRAPHED A VERITABLE WHO’S WHO OF EVERYONE IN THE FILM WORLD. A FIXTURE ON THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT FOR THE LAST FEW DECADES, HENNY HAS PHOTOGRAPHED AT SUNDANCE, TORONTO, CANNES, NEW YORK, VENICE, TRIBECA , DOC.NYC FILM FESTIVALS, AND IS NOW KNOWN FOR HER MEMORABLE PORTRAITS OF ACTORS AND FILMMAKERS. SHE HAS CREATED EDITORIAL FEATURES FOR PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA COMPANIES THAT INCLUDE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEW YORK TIMES, INSTYLE, FILMMAKER, PAPER MAGAZINE, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, SUNDANCE CHANNEL, SUNDANCE TV, BBC.COM/CULTURE, AND VOGUE.COM, TO NAME A FEW; AS WELL AS NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND WEBSITES.
A SELF TAUGHT PHOTOGRAPHER, HENNY BEGAN PHOTOGRAPHING WHILE TRAVELING IN GREECE IN THE 1970’S,
WITH A SIMPLE POINT AND SHOOT CAMERA. SINCE THEN, SHE HAS DEVELOPED A HUMBLE, CASUAL, ALMOST ACCIDENTAL STYLE. SHE LIKES TO REACT TO THE WORLD, RATHER THAN POSE IT. SHE’S MOST COMFORTABLE ON THE STREET, AND RELIES ON SERENDIPITY TO PROVIDE HER WITH HER BEST MATERIAL.
‘IN MOST SITUATIONS, I HAVE JUST A FEW MOMENTS TO CONNECT WITH MY SUBJECT. THIS IS CRUCIAL, AS MAKING A CONNECTION REALLY ADDS TO MAKING A GREAT PHOTOGRAPH. AN IMMEDIATE TRUST IS FORMED, AND THIS IS VITAL FOR ALL MY WORK,
I AIM TO MAKE A CONNECTION WITH THE OTHER PERSON AS WE PASS BRIEFLY THROUGH EACH OTHER’S LIVES’.
Client List
MAGAZINES
In Style
Entertainment Weekly
Premiere
Vogue
Details
Paper Magazine
New York Magazine
Harper's Bazaar
Filmmaker
Esquire
BBC
San Francisco Chronicle
Sundance Channel
The New York Times
Harper Collins Publishing
Elle
The Guardian
The Independent
German Vogue
Manner Vogue
Vogue Espana
The Village Voice
NY Daily News
Brutus
FILM FESTIVALS
1994 – Present Sundance Film Festival
1993 – Present Toronto Film Festival
1997 – 2001 Cannes Film Festival
1999 – Present Provincetown Film Festival
2012 – Present Tribeca Film Festival
2017 New York Film Festival
Solo Photo Exhibitions
2018 “20x20: Henny Garfunkel/ 20 Years of Portraits From the Provincetown International Film Festival”; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2016 “New Years Day Garage Pop Up”; Eric Smith, San Francisco
2012 “Sleeping in Public with Fabulous Old Ladies, Big Butts and Some Celebrities”; Modern Appealing Clothing, San Francisco
2007 “One Last Shot: Signed Polaroids”; NY Film Festival, Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Walter Reade Theater NYC
2005 “What I Do For Money”; Dianne Strauss Salon Prive, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 “The Gays”; The Driskel Gallery at The School House Center, Provincetown, MA
2000 “Fame and Fortune (The Sky is Falling)”; The Driskel Gallery at The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA,
Group Exhibitions
2018 “SPRING/BREAK presents ALL ABOUT FRANK”
2017 “Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983”; MoMA, New York
2017 “Desert Dweller”; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2010 “Inspired”; Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
2007 “One Last Shot: Signed Polaroids with Phyllis Diller”; Paper Magazine Pop Up, Los Angeles
2005 “Arty Party”; Paper Magazine, New York
1990’s Exhibition at Holly Solomon Gallery
1980’s Exhibition at Club 57
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY ON FILMS
Hairspray, director: John Waters,
Crybaby, director: John Waters
Happiness, director: Todd Solondz
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, director: Pedro Almodovar
Series 7, director: Daniel Minahan
Office Killer, director: Cindy Sherman
Kiss Me Guido, director: Tony Vitale
4%, director: Caroline Suh
“Untitled Women’s Project”, director: Amy Berg
Climate Youth Action, Parlay TV
John Lewis: Good Trouble, director: Dawn Porter
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SELECTION OF PRESS
“See Adorable Throwback Photos of Stars at Past Sundance Film Festivals”. EW.com” January 29, 2022“
“10 Incredible Throwback Photos from Past Sundance Film Festivals”. PEOPLEMAG.COM January 29, 2022
“Art, style intersect at SF Art Book Fair” SF Chronicle, August 4, 2017
“Peep These Glorious Photos of The Stars from the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival” PAPERMAG, May 12, 2017
“This Is What New York’s Anti-Trump Resistance Looks Like” Vogue.com, March 28, 2017
“Stars go Old Hollywood glamour in Henny Garfunkel portraits” BBC Culture, September 2016
“Henny Garfunkel's summer of Bay Area style” SF Chronicle, August 26, 2016
“Portraits in African American style” SF Chronicle, July 27, 2016
“Bay Area black dandies dress to impress” SF Chronicle, August 26, 2016
“Sundance Film Festival: The Henny Garfunkel Collection” SundanceTV, 2016
"Sundance Retrospective: Baby-Faced Photos of Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and More." PAPERMAG, 29 Jan. 2015.
"6 Questions With Sundance Festival Photographer Henny Garfunkel." SundanceTV. 11 Jan. 2015.
"Outsiders Have the Style - StyleLikeU." Outsiders Have the Style. StyleLikeU.com, 11 June 2014.
“Interview with Henny Garfunkel,” Manfrotto School of Excellence. 10 Dec. 2014.
Barnes, Brooks. "Sundance, Through a Lens Lightly." The New York Times. The New York Times, 19 Jan. 2013.
InStyle Staff. "The Stars of the Toronto International Film Festival Through the Lens of Photographer Henny Garfunkel." InStyle.com, 10 Sept. 2013.
"Henny Garfunkel's "Sleeping In Public With Fabulous Old Ladies, Big Butts and Some Celebrities" Opens in SF." PAPERMAG, 12 Nov. 2012.
“LIPPY” Directed by Eric Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVb0I1-3aE