Aaron Huey
Agency
National Geographic Creative
Seattle, WA, USA
Aaron Huey has shot twenty-seven stories for National Geographic magazines. He is also a contributing artist for Harper’s magazine. Huey’s recent book Mitakuye Oyasin (All My Relations), published by Radius Books, won best photography book in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards. That eight-year project on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation took many shapes, from a TED talk to a 2012 National Geographic magazine cover story, to an ongoing street art/advocacy campaign with the artist Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant). Huey is widely known for his 3,349 mile, solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo). The 2002 journey lasted 154 days. They walked every step.
Huey’s is currently working on a two-year photo project with his 5 year old son Hawkeye, the youngest photographer represented by National Geographic Creative.
Huey’s commercial clients include Unilever, the NFL, Facebook, Lego, the Boy Scouts of America, Born shoes, Finlandia Vodka, and Universal Studios.
Huey is a Stanford Knight Fellow and the first Global Ambassador for Stanford’s d.School. He lives in Seattle with his wife, two children, and an old black dog named Suki.

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