Vox Creative

Introduced to photography through an impulsive stint as a fashion model, Henry Hargreaves has since built his career on work that combines a talent for still life photography with a fascination with the meaning that can be found in food. His most famous series, No Seconds, focused on detailed recreations of the last meals of Death Row inmates. Other projects have included maps expressed in the cuisines of various regions and iconic images recreated using burnt Wonder Bread, all born from a passion for art that was nurtured at a young age.

A longtime food fanatic, Dave Arnold spent time in the art world before pursuing his calling with Booker & Dax, a cocktail bar and food laboratory. At the bar, he and his team are using everything from muddling to centrifuges to liquid nitrogen to a custom-built hot poker to produce the most innovative drinks. Meanwhile Arnold’s food laboratory is turning out gadgets that are set to transform the home kitchen.

Even as a former standout athlete — he was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 1986 NFL Draft — with a masters in Materials Sciences, Leland Melvin never dreamed of becoming an astronaut until a colleague at NASA convinced him to enter the trials. Despite a debilitating ear injury sustained during training, Leland served among the first flight crews that led America back into space following the space shuttle Columbia disaster. He is now a NASA educator, helping to raise the profile of the U.S. space program in the post-shuttle era.

Once an East Coast kid who dreamed of Rocky Mountain powder snow, Todd Jones worked as a professional skier, helicopter skiing guide, and commercial fisherman before co-founding Teton Gravity Research. In the 18 years since, TGR has grown into the premier action sports production company, capturing everything from skiers on the steepest Alaskan mountainsides to surfers taking on the world’s most dangerous waves, all while pioneering innovative filmmaking techniques, including gyroscopically stabilized helicopter-mounted cameras.

The daughter of a college mathematics professor, Pamela Chen was a math major until a single photograph changed her life forever. That simple image, of two college classmates skateboarding on the quad, made Pamela realize that “photography was a way that you could see the world differently than what you were seeing with your own eyes.” Now, as the Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic, Pamela sorts through as many as 60,000 photographs for each feature story, following the photographer’s every step and distilling their epic journeys for publication in the storied magazine.

From the streets of New York to the runways of Paris, the world of fashion is in the midst of a revolutionary transformation. To bring fashion to the 21st century, Sabine Seymour, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Moondial, is adopting the latest technologies to create smart, connected clothing. The burgeoning field of fashionable technology has spawned a new generation of researchers and designers, who concentrate on the intersection of aesthetics and function to realize a stylish and intelligent vision for the future of their industry.

Filmmakers and cinematographers have little fear in their quest for the best possible shots. Once a professional wakeboarder, Chase Heavener was always eager to capture his most jaw-dropping rides. The founder of Fiction, an Orlando-based creative video production company, Chase is using state-of-the-art drone technology for sweeping aerial footage, and in the process, elevating storytelling possibilities to unprecedented levels.