Chad Hunt

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 in 1994 and studied at Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA program. Other training includes the Eddie Adams Barnstorm VII Workshop and interning with iconic photographer Mary Ellen Mark. In 1999, Hunt became a staff photographer at Richmond, Virginia's Style Weekly. During his time there, he received 38 Virginia Press Awards. In 2004, he moved to New York and began working for a range of publications and clients. Most notably, Hunt has made three journeys to Afghanistan as an embedded photographer with the U.S. Military, creating photo stories for Men’s Journal, Popular Mechanics, the cover of Time magazine, and his own personal portrait series of soldiers. One image, “Regan Smoking,” was included in the London’s International Center of Photography annual exhibit in 2007.

Since moving to Maplewood, NJ with his wife and 14-year old daughter, Hunt continues to create empathetic images for both advertising campaigns and publications. Last year, Popular Photography featured his project, “Porch Portraits,” photos of trick-or-treaters that he has done every Halloween for the last six years.  Currently, he is a staff photographer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York, applying his documentary skills to help create images for annual reports, advertising and editorial stories for the in-house magazine.

When he’s not working, you may find Hunt in upstate New York.  There, he likes to explore the Hudson River, both through drone photography and up close, in a kayak.