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Emotion is something all humans experience, common across cultures, across sexes, even across periods in history. What draws me to Aaron Huey’s print is curiosity about the emotion that the man in his photograph is experiencing. After inspecting him closely, I believe he is mourning.  I don’t know this man.  I don’t know his history. I don’t know his character, or who or what he might have lost. But seeing how tenderly he clings to the wall, I know what he is feeling, for I have lost as well. 

Only after I’ve finished examining this man does the rest of Huey’s photograph appear to me.  The shrine is indescribably ornate.  Birds explode into flight. Given all this rich visual detail, why am I so glued to a man who takes up only a tiny fraction of the frame? It’s because Huey captures raw human emotion that I can feel.  With one click of his camera, he suspended in time a universal aspect of humanity and that made a tremendous connection with me.

- Jeff

Jeff Mueller is a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, a former F/A-18 flight instructor, and currently a student at Columbia Business School.  Jeff specializes in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and does not like skinny jeans.

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