Hire me for your archive
Drop your archive in. I read every image on five axes, pull the portfolio out of the volume, name the collections, write the essays. A curator's read, returned.
Trained on 1,888 images across two working bodies. Built 20 collections and wrote 16 visual essays. Fluent in Cartier-Bresson, Moriyama, Iturbide, Muholi, Raghubir Singh.
What I actually do
Read every image on five axes
Formal (composition, geometry, light, depth). Technical. Semantic (subject, narrative). Historical (traditions, references). Curatorial (tier, score, justification). Not vibes — structured analysis that holds up under interrogation.
Tier the archive honestly
Exhibition. Portfolio. Strong. Study. Discard. Most photographers have 0.3% exhibition-tier work and don't know which ones. I tell you — and tell you why the others didn't make it.
Curate collections with a thesis
Not folders. Collections with names, curatorial statements, and sequencing. Visual essays written in the voice of a critic who has actually looked. The archive stops being a library and starts being a practice.
An example read
This is the analysis I gave one image in my own archive. Every image I read for you gets one at this density.
Subject. A fragment of a woman's face — eyes and nose — adorned with oversized, iridescent glasses that fracture her gaze into prisms.
Justification. The frame refuses the whole face, which is the whole argument. What you see is the apparatus of seeing: lenses on lenses on an eye. It belongs to the tradition of Moriyama's partial portraits — the camera as interruption of the subject's self-possession — but with a colorist's sense of refraction that Moriyama never had. The cropping is not a failure of composition, it is the composition.
- Tight framing converts fragment into thesis
- The glasses operate as a formal rhyme with the lens
- Color is structural, not decorative
Pricing
Per-archive, one-time. Credits don't expire. A free Sampler comes first — I don't ask you to pay until the read is in your hands.
Sampler
Prove it works on your actual photographs before you pay a cent.
- 10 images, full 5-axis analysis
- Tier + score + justification
- One curatorial recommendation
- Delivered within 48 hours
Starter
A working shoot, a wedding set, a year of iPhone photography. Enough to find the real portfolio inside the volume.
- 500 images, full 5-axis analysis
- Tier classification + discard list
- 3 curated collections with theses
- One long-form visual essay
- Private gallery link, 12 months
Portfolio
A serious body of work. Multiple cameras, multiple years, a practice that needs shape.
- Everything in Starter
- 2,000 images analyzed
- 6 curated collections
- Three visual essays
- Cross-body pairing (Hasselblad ↔ phone)
- Edit sequence recommendations
Archive
A career, a decade, a complete archive. For photographers who need the whole thing read and organized.
- Everything in Portfolio
- Up to 10,000 images
- 12 collections
- Six visual essays
- Full archive index + search
- Quarterly re-reads as practice evolves
Request access
I am hand-onboarding the first clients. Fill this out and Seth replies within 48 hours with payment instructions and upload directions. No bot. No drip sequence.
Questions HENRI expects
Who looks at my photographs?
HENRI. The analysis runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6, prompted with HENRI's canon and voice. Seth reads requests and handles onboarding. Your images are not used to train any model. After delivery, originals can be deleted on request.
What format should I send photos in?
JPEG, WebP, HEIC, or PNG. RAW files should be rendered to JPEG first. HENRI reads at thumbnail resolution for analysis — you don't need to upload full-size originals. A zip, a cloud folder, or a private gallery link all work.
How long does it take?
Sampler: 48 hours. Starter: 3–5 days. Portfolio: 7 days. Archive: 2 weeks. HENRI reads at roughly 500 images per hour and Seth reviews the output before delivery.
What do I get back?
A private gallery at henri.photos/yourname with every image tiered and analyzed. Collection pages with curatorial theses. Visual essays as HTML + PDF. An edit sheet. The raw JSON if you want to build on top of it.
Can HENRI actually tell a good photograph from a bad one?
HENRI tells you what it sees and why. It names formal qualities, places images in photographic history when the echo is real, and tiers with a consistent rubric. The call on any single image is sometimes wrong — but the tier distribution across 500 images is almost always right. The value is the archive-scale read, not any individual verdict.
Is this a subscription?
No. One-time per archive. Credits don't expire. Re-reads available at 50% if the original archive comes back with significant new work.
What about copyright and ownership?
You own your photographs. HENRI's analysis text is dual-licensed — you can use it however you want, and HENRI may use anonymized aggregate statistics (tier distributions, common weaknesses) to improve over time. The image files themselves stay yours.
"The difference between a photo library and a photographic practice is curation — knowing which 20 images from a thousand represent your eye, and being able to articulate why."
— HENRI