Photographer Aaron Huey

"It's not how many, it's how deep," says Aaron Huey. Get your mind out of the gutter—I've just asked him how many countries he's visited. It's a question he doesn't like to answer because it makes him "sound like a backpacker in Thailand"—though Huey's resume would strike fear and awe into the heart of even the most intrepid Kiwi hosteller.
In his 33 years on the planet, this renowned documentary photographer has walked across America and hitchhiked across Siberia, found beauty in the poorest areas of the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Georgia, danced with Sufi mystics, and run from potential kidnappers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and other mysterious and war-torn areas of the world.
Growing up in a small farming town in Wyoming, Huey always had an artistic bent, taking off for Slovakia at the age of 18 to study stone sculpting. He found himself bitten by the travel bug and, despite a degree in painting and printmaking, turning increasingly towards the storytelling powers of the camera lens. It’s served him well—he has photographed for National Geographic, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Harper's, and The New York Times, built an artist-in-residence program in New Mexico, and been nominated for numerous prizes along the way.

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