WHO IS AARON HUEY?: BIO/AWARDS/HONORS

Aaron Huey is a photojournalist who freelances regularly for The National Geographic magazines, Harper's, The New Yorker, the Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times, GEO and dozens of others. He is also a Contributing Editor (photographer) for Harper's magazine.

Huey is widely known for his 3,349 mile, solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo). The 2002 journey lasted 154 days. There was no media coverage. They walked everystep. 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 now uses Seattle, WA, where he sits on the board of directors for the photographic non-profit Blue Earth Alliance, as a home base inbetween assignments.

His work is represented by Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2011/2012 Stanford Knight Fellow

2010 TED speaker

2010 Curator's First Prize, Center 's Choice Awards

2010 Flash Forward Award winner/Magenta Foundation

2010 Lead Awards (Germany) Portrait of the Year

2010 American Photography 26 Book

2010 Image Makers/Image Takers Book

2010 Annenberg Grantee and lecturer

2009 Publisher's Choice Honors Center 's Choice

2009 Rudio Photo (Spain) Photography Grant winner

2009 American Photography 25 Book

2009 POYi Award for Feature Single

2009 Alumni Achievement Award, University of Denver

2008 National Geographic Expedition Council Grant

2008 Alexia Prize Shortlist

2008 POYi 2nd Prize for Issue Reporting

2007 PDN's 30 Emerging photographers

2007 Alexia Prize Shortlist

2007 Honickman First Book Prize shortlist

2007 Exhibition Perpignan Photojournalism Festival

2006 First Prize NPPA Best of Pictures