Aaron Huey

Aaron Huey ( born December 9, 1975) is an American photojournalist and documentary photographer who is known widely for its reserve hike across the United States in 2002, and through his work for the Pine Ridge Indian. He grew up in Worland ( Wyoming) and graduated there from high school. At the age of 18 he studied on a scholarship from the Rotary company in Slovakia in 1999 and received a BFA from the University of Denver in Colorado.

Photography

Huey provides regular work for the Harper 's Magazine, his photographs appear in addition, among other things, the Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times.

In 2002, Huey emigrated with his dog Cosmo across the United States. The journey lasted 154 days and covered 3349 miles. Huey walked there with him complete strangers, whom he met on the road, and laid an average of about 30 miles back in a day; his record was 46 miles in a single day. Color photos of the people he met on his journey he made with a single camera and a single lens on: One Leica M6 with a 35mm lens. Huey spoke about his motivation for the hike and his experiences in a presentation in 2010 at the Annenberg Foundation.

Aaron Huey in 2007 was awarded by the Photo District News as one of 30 best young photographers in the world and in the following year was nominated for the Alexia price. Also in 2008, he was granted by the National Geographic Society for financial support for an expedition to hitchhike across Siberia.

Huey's extensive work documenting the poverty and problems on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, received by his lecture titled America's Native Prisoner's of War as part of the TED 2010 increased attention. The presentation highlights the precarious and often violent relations between the Government of the United States and the people of the Sioux, the history of the mutually closed contracts and the impact on the descendants of both parties.