For over 20 years, Chad Hunt has been documenting people and the world around us through award-winning photojournalism.
Hunt received his BFA in photography from the Columbus College of Art and Design and studied at Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA program. Other career training included attending the Eddie Adams Barnstorm VII Workshop for emerging photojournalists in 1994 and interning with Mary Ellen Mark in 1996. Hunt's professional career began 1999 when he landed a staff job as a photographer at Richmond, Virginia's Style Weekly Magazine. During his time there, Hunt received 38 Virginia Press Awards. In 2004 he moved to New York to pursue a freelance career and has since shot for a range of publications and clients making images for magazine and advertising clients.
Hunt has made three journeys to Afghanistan as an embedded photographer with the U.S. Military. His first trip in the fall of 2006 was to Forward Operating Base Kamdesh and was completely self-assigned and funded. Later that winter, he returned-- this time for Men's Journal to be embedded with the 10th Mountain Division at the Korengal Outpost for a story which appeared in the March 2007 issue, "The Taliban Hunters." In both of these trips, Hunt's primary goal was to capture the day-to-day life of the soldiers stationed there, and to help tell the story of an often-overlooked war. In 2009, he returned again for a third trip to the conflict, this time positioning himself with 1-509th infantry scouts and Task Force Attack at Salerno and Forward Operating Base Orgun-E , while on assignment for Popular Mechanics and shooting for the Corbis news agency.
Since moving to Maplewood Hunt has worked on various military related assignments but has shifted into assignment work that is less dangerous. Recently he worked on a project for St. Vincent Medical Center photographing addicts for an ad campaign and has worked on human interest stories for NJ Monthly magazine.
His personal photo project was featured in Popular Photography Magazine and Broad Street Magazine — a series of Halloween porch portraits of trick or treaters that he has done every Halloween for the last six years.
Currently he is working as a staff photographer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. There he continues to create empathetic images for advertising campaigns, annual reports, social media and publications.
Recognition for his Afghanistan series includes:
Awarded Alumni Award for Excellence by The Columbus College of Art and Design.
"Military Reporters and Editors Award, 2010"
*Images in the permanent collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA and George Eastman House Museum, Rochester, NY -
*Time Magazine Cover, July 28, 2008
*2007 National Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, England.
*2007 nominee for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography
*Prize Winner, Woodstock Center of Photography, Photography Now exhibit 2007
*Fine art prints from this series are available through CLAMPART Gallery, NYC
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