CURATED: AARON HUEY

Aaron Huey is an artist working across a broad range of imaging techniques, from investigative photojournalism and photogrammetry to augmented reality, virtual photography, AI-driven collaborations, and scanning electron microscopy. With a foundation built on over 30 feature stories for National Geographic—including a Webby Award for Best VR Interactive Design, multiple World Press Photo Awards, and a TED Talk—his practice now centers on post-lens photography and the use of algorithmic lenses. By blending historical photographic techniques and his own photographic archives with contemporary algorithms, Huey uncovers unseen worlds, creating hybrid realities that merge the past, present, and speculative futures.

A three-time Stanford Fellow, including his current role as a Starling Lab Fellow focused on data integrity in visual journalism, Huey continues to challenge and redefine the intersections of art, technology, and media ethics. 

His current work at Amplifier Labs involves leading the Visual Journalism R+D cohort, where he helps prototype new storytelling methodologies for photo-based artists to explore complex societal narratives through photography, mapping, and interactive digital tools. As Founder and Creative Director of Amplifier.org, he has collaborated with artists like Shepard Fairey to create global art campaigns that interrogate power and amplify movements. 

Throughout 2024, Huey has served as the photography mentor for the AVAX ecosystem, helping shape projects to bring on-chain this year.

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Inquiry

Aaron Huey is a photographer with over two decades of experience covering topics ranging from cultural heritage to conflict and the climate crisis. As a photographer for National Geographic, he has photographed over 30 feature stories. His work has also graced the pages of prominent publications such as The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, and Smithsonian, among others. In 20 years of assignments, there were many that focused on the causes and effects of the climate crisis: from Hurricane Katrina to Southern California wildfires, the Bakken oil field boom in North Dakota to the tar sands of Canada, and the global retreat of glaciers.
<meta charset="utf-8">Starting with this image archive as the primary prompt for GASOLINE GARDENS, and adding only a single text element for each piece (strictly limited to one historical wallpaper pattern name, such as damask, chinoiserie, or toile de jouy), Aaron Huey employs a method that prioritizes visual content over verbal descriptions of the crisis. This approach allows the generative AI to engage more directly with the visual language of the original photography. The resulting wallpaper patterns, capable of infinite and seamless tiling, emerge as a synthesis of documented moments and AI interpretation that is intrinsically tied to the original photographic evidence while evolving the output into a new aesthetic and distribution channel.

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