Aaron Huey

Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer and Founder + Creative Director of Amplifier.org. As a photographer Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines including several cover stories, and is also leading new projects inside the brand from VR and AR to metaverse spaces. Huey’s 2019 Bear Ears Virtual Museum VR experience promoted the protection of sacred lands and won the Webby for best VR Interactive Design, and is currently being made into Augmented Reality lessons and metaverse experiences to teach pre-Colonial History in K-12 schools across the country. As a Stanford Knight Fellow and then as one of the first d.School Media Experiments Fellows, Huey focused on using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world to evolve his storytelling. That resulted in many projects beyond traditional photography, including the evolution of his art and advocacy non-profit Amplifier, where he created the global art phenomenon called "We The People" out of his backyard with a small team in Seattle. At Amplifier Huey now leads its Amplifier Lab projects: all of the organization's work in new media including animation, blockchain projects, the spatial web, and XR storytelling.