AARON HUEY: BIOGRAPHY

Aaron Huey grew up in a small town in Wyoming on the edge of a field that grew both beets and barley, alternating each year to enrich the soil quality.

Huey escaped small town Wyoming only to find himself living in an old Communist apartment complex in Bratislava, Slovakia, where, at the age of 18, he studied as a Rotary Scholar, graduating with a degree in stone sculpture followed by a 1999 BFA from the University of Denver, in Colorado, in painting and printmaking.

In 2002, Huey walked 3,349 miles across America with his dog Cosmo. The journey lasted 154 days. There was no media coverage. They walked every step. Following the walk Huey took a 2 1/2 year hiatus from shooting photos to build an artist in residence program (Hueyhaus), from the ground up, on the Pecos River east of Santa Fe.

Aaron was recently awarded a National Geographic Expedition Council Grant to hitchhike across Siberia. He was also recently named to the short list for the Alexia Prize, as a finalist for the Center for Documentary Studies - Honickman First Book Prize for his work on Pine Ridge, and named to PDN’s top 30 emerging photographers in the world for 2007. His images of the Pine Ridge Indian reservation were featured in Perpignan at the last Vis d'Or Photojournalism Festival.

Aaron is a masthead photographer for both National Geographic Adventure and National Geographic Traveler magazines, and freelances regularlyfor dozens of others including The New Yorker, the Smithsonian, the New York Times, and GEO among others.

Aaron is on the board of directors for the photographic non-profit Blue Earth Alliance.

His work is represented by Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles and the Moti Hasson Gallery in New York.

AARON HUEY

IS BASED IN

SEATTLE and LOS ANGELES

argonautphoto@gmail.com