My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.
Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
Men are separated by so many petty things.
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Aaron Huey: Biography and Life Work
Aaron Huey was a notable Photographer. The story of Aaron Huey began on December 9, 1975 in Worland, Wyoming.
Aaron Huey (born 1975) is an American photographer, explorer, activist, and storyteller. He is known for his work as a photographer with National Geographic , for whom he has shot many magazine features on a diverse array of subjects from adventure, to war, to wildlife. Aaron is the founder of the Amplifier Foundation, a design lab that builds art to amplify the voices of grassroots movements. He was the architect and design director for the non-profit art project “ We The People, ” that flooded the streets of Donald Trump’s Inauguration and the International Women's March in 2017.
Legacy and Personal Influence
Academic foundations were established at B.F.A University of Denver 1999, Stanford Knight Journalist Fellow 2011-2012, Stanford Design School Media Experiments Global Ambassador 2014-2015. Historically, their work is best remembered for Advocacy through photojournalism.
Philosophical Views and Reflections
In the Spring of 2013, Aaron published " Mitakuye Oyasin ," which translates to “All My Relations,” a haunting collection of pictures taken at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. " Mitakuye Oyasin " portrays “both the broken social landscape and the ceremonial warrior culture” of the Oglala Lakota tribe. The book opens and closes with traditional Lakota prayer and the photographs reveal the beauty and hardships of the Lakota people in their everyday lives. In the next year, the book of photos won the IPPY Gold Medal for Photography.
Aaron’s son, Hawkeye Huey, a 4-year-old at the time, received his first camera as a gift from his father. The two explorers embarked on road trips together around the U.S., to the Grand Canyon , Zion National Park , the Salton Sea and Joshua Tree in California , Arizona , and many more. That " Instamatic " camera launched Hawkeye's career as a photographer, taking him from Instagram star to the "youngest person ever" published in National Geographic.
