Photographs from Chad Hunt’s week with a U.S. Special Operations Team doing live fire training near Yakima, WA, earlier this year. The team was preparing for deployment to Afghanistan in 2013. Photos: Chad Hunt
to tell their story,” reflects Hunt. “Just spending time with them goes a long way in earning their trust.” In 2008, his photograph of Sergeant Major David Combs at the Korengal Outpost in Afghanistan made the cover of Time magazine. The success was welcome, but with each military trip, Hunt found that editors
“The current iPhone has a higher screen resolution than the first digital camera I shot with that cost $5,000.” — Chad Hunt
became less likely to assign him to anything but “guys, gears, and guns” stories. So he’s switching it up again. At the time of this interview, he was preparing to embark on a trip to Haiti to capture
new images for the World Wide Orphan Foundation. “I’m excited—it’s an opportunity to re-prove myself,” he says. Given Hunt’s track record, we expect the trip will broaden not only his worldview, but ours.
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