28 July 2025

By Göran R Buckhorn
All images © Henry Reichhold

HTBS has been in contact with photographer Henry Reichhold, who lives in London with his Swedish wife and their children. “Photographer” is not really covering what Henry is doing as his creativity with his photography is more than snapping pictures. A more accurate title would be “photo digital artist”, and when it comes to his image montages, he is a real magician.

Henry grew up in Henley-on-Thames, “So I have always had a love of the river, fishing or exploring the local area in a variety of patched-up boats. Henley was where I also discovered photography and would be up early in the morning to catch the great, white mist that rolls down the river,” Henry told HTBS.

“While I have worked with the Thames Festival for many years creating a series of exhibitions at London Bridge Railway Station, it wasn’t until 2023 that I approached Henley Royal Regatta with a proposal to create an artwork of this wonderful event. HRR liked the idea so that summer I took over 7000 images and then spent three months putting them together to try and capture its essence with just one image.”

If you visited Henley Royal Regatta in 2024, you probably came across Henry’s artwork on your way into the Stewards’ Enclosure. It was a large, playful collage created from more than 1,500 images, which captured all the action and fun of the 2023 regatta in one picture.

Here are some close-ups:

Henry continues: “The work I showed this year took a very different approach and is a light-hearted celebration of all the fun of the regatta. Time, scale and narrative descriptions based on fact are entirely abandoned and give way to an image inspired by the past as well as the present whose only objective is to squeeze in as much fun as possible into one single image.”

However, this year, Henry was not working in any kind of official way with the regatta. He spent some hours on Sunday to capture the event just for fun with two ancient cameras, one was 109 years old and the other 70 years old. He loaded them with film that expired in 1998! “What can possibly go wrong?”, Henry told HTBS. “It was a very relaxed shoot, lasting just a few hours and what surprised me was just how capable these simple cameras were.”

Here are a few of those pictures from Final Sunday:

As mentioned earlier, Henry has worked with the Totally Thames Festival for years, having had his images on large panels at different locations. Here is a photo from the London Bridge Railway Station, “Now and Then”, September 2024.

Henry’s favourite view of London – from Canary Wharf.

Go to Henry’s website for more information on his art and to order copies of his prints, www.reichholdarts.com

Many thanks to Henry for allowing HTBS to publish his art, images and photographs.

Talking about Henley, if you might have missed any of HTBS’s articles from 2025 Henley Royal Regatta, you will find them all here.