Bruce Hucko

We are pleased to annouce prolific southwest photographer Bruce Hucko as a keynote speaker at this year's PhotoCamp.

 

Bruce's Bio

 

Bruce Hucko is the creator/director and cleanup crew for the Moab Photo Symposium. He is a freelance photographer, author, children’s art coach and radio producer whose primary work focuses on the land and people’s relationship to it. Hucko works in a broad range of styles that range from large-format fine art B&W and prints and 35mm color images of area landscapes to portraits of area residents. He specializes in photographing Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) Homesites and people in their natural environment. Hucko has completed documentary work among the Seri Indians of Mexico, Navajo rug weavers, and ranch families across the West. He's also photographed and produced interpretive slide shows for Arches NP, Organ Pipe Cactus NM, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and the award-winning, 8-projector, 40-minute multi-media show the Canyon's Edge.

 

Hucko has photographed extensively among the Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo people and recently completed "A Gesture of Kinship," a creative documentary project among the Navajo he first worked and lived with 20+ years ago. This exhibit was recently shown Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. He has photographed 9 books on Southwest Indian Arts and Crafts, several calendars, magazines and special projects. His work among the Ancestral Puebloan people in large format B&W and Color has been exhibited widely. Hucko was the photographer for the book Cowboys and Cave Dwellers and the author and contributing photographer of Art on the Rocks by Sierra Press. Seventeen books feature Hucko’s work including the recently released Dead Horse Point (KC Publications) and Time Among the Ancients: Rock Art & Ruins of the Colorado Plateau (Impact Photographics). Current projects include "Entrada," a collaborative book of poetry and imagery with poet David Lee and "WaterSong," a collection of images and sounds from Moab’s Millcreek.

 

Hucko loves the process of composing a photograph, from the walk, to the "ahaa" moment to the faithful use of equipment to record and help express the moment. Of late he's been "preaching" about Photographing from the Inside Out. Though he has lived in Santa Fe, he’s assured us that this is not "woo-woo" talk, but the core of the creative process that all artists, no matter what their medium, share.

 

Aside from photography Hucko enjoys hiking, whitewater rafting and a good red wine.

 

You are welcome to visit his website, www.brucehuckophoto.com.