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smoke on the water - popular mechanics - march 2009 issue, page 78
written by erik sofge / photos by chad hunt

from a story on navy training, this months issue.

I have a image on the cover of TIME magazine this week (July 28, 2008 issue)! The Soldier is Sergeant Major Combs, photographed at the Korengal Outpost last fall. Naturally, this is major news for me professionally, but it also means a great deal personally. I received an email from Combs’ mother telling me that she took his three children to the newsstand to buy as many copies as they could. They were so excited they were running up and down the store’s aisles saying ‘this is my daddy! this is my daddy!’.

Click here for more info on the area where this image was shot:

Click here to see it on the TIME website.

Click here to see the uncropped image.

and the NPPA web site did a write up here:

(Click here to see high res image.)

I am thrilled to have one of my images included in the Communication Arts Photo Annual 49, August 2008 (pg 42). It’s from a story I did for Gourmet magazine last year called “Kabul Nights” about dining in the Afghan capital. (BTW, despite his AK-47, the guard at the door was a really nice guy.)   It’s great to be included an issue packed with industry leaders.

February, 2008 issue, “The Fire Birds” written by Carl Hoffman, photos by me. Click here to see the PDF layout.

I just learned that one of my photographs of U.S. solidiers taken in Afghanistan
last year has been selected to appear in the “2007 Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at London’s Portrait Gallery”

The photograph chosen is of PFC Heather Ragan, 19, from Oklahoma City, OK. It was taken during my first trip to Kamdesh, Afghanistan last fall.

The show is on from November 8th to February 24th, before going on tour. If your travels take you to London during that time, I hope you’ll have a chance to see it.
“you can purchase the book here:”

My work can now be purchased through ClampArt Gallery.

Picture of photo in London Portrait Gallery:

I have a image on the newest book from Gary Trudeau.
The book is titled: “Doonesbury.com’s The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan”.
All author proceeds go to Fisher House, a “home away from home” for the families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers. I donated my photo fee as well. special Thanks to “PFC William Pinson, 23 of Chattanooga, TN.

Exciting news. Two of my photographs are hanging in Clampart, one of the best photography galleries in Chelsea. They represent an amazing collection of artists (like Brian Finke and Jill Greenburg) and I’m honored to be included in the mix. To see some of my work there, check out their website here.

October issue. A photo of a smoke jumper

I shot this for Gourmet magazine last year during my first trip to Afghanistan. A story on a steak house and coffee shop in Kabul

Storm chaser, this is my job. Popular Mechanics, out this month

Nate Bozman at home with his fiance’ Kristen. Nate is with the 10th Mtn. Division, 3 Squadron, 71st Cavalry.
He will be returning to Afghanistan next August.

Portrait I made when we met in Afghanistan in September 2006

I have this idea to photograph these guys as they “ghost” back into the real world. Needless to say, I have made a few good friends along the way.

“Chad Hunt’s arresting and revealing images of young American soldiers in Afghanistan, serve as a center for the entire exhibition that, like the war they depict, are impossible to ignore.” - Alison D. Nordström, 2007

The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Photography Now ‘07
Juror Alison D. Nordström, Curator of Photographs, George Eastman House.

CPW’s annual juried exhibition presents the newest voices in photography spanning the United States, from Massachusetts and New York to California, Illinois, Texas, and Oregon! Out of over 270 applicants, Alison D. Nordström selected nine featured photographers whose work crosses boundaries, charts new territory, and exemplifies what is new and now in photography in 2007!

Admission to the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s galleries
is free and open to the public, Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday June 9, 2007 from 5-7 pm
Woodstock, New York

Also - The gallery decided to buy this image for their permanent collection!!!!!

Last Saturday I had my first gallery opening of the Afghanistan work. The show was written up in the local paper, The Poughkeepsie Journal.
And another local Magazine called The Chronogram did a piece on it as well.
The parents of LT Miller, a soldier I met at the KOP, drove 2 hours just to come to the show. Here is a picture of them and a picture of LT Miller.
also - there is a review of kingston show here :

Don’t forget my next opening on June 9th!!!!! Hope to see you there.