Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Aaron Huey

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Aaron Huey.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Aaron Huey 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.

American - Photographer | Born: December 9, 1975

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Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Aaron Huey

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.

Aaron Huey

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Aaron Huey

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.

Aaron Huey

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

Aaron Huey

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Aaron Huey

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.

Aaron Huey

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Aaron Huey

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.

Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Aaron Huey

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

Aaron Huey

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.

Aaron Huey

[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.

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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.

Aaron Huey

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Aaron Huey

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.

Aaron Huey

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Aaron Huey

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