Aaron Hardin is an American photographer and teacher, born in 1985. He received his MFA from the Hartford Art School International Limited Residency Program in 2016 and teaches visual arts at Hawken School in Cleveland, Ohio. For many years he lived and worked in Jackson, Tennessee.
In 2016 he won the Magnum Photography Award in the Fine Art Series category and the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Artist award, and in 2017 he was named to the Critical Mass Top 50. His work has been shown across the United States and in Cuba, Germany, the United Kingdom and Russia, including group shows at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. His clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times and Le Monde.
His book The 13th Spring (Fall Line Press, 2021) began after his wife became unexpectedly pregnant. It looks at parenthood and rural life in West Tennessee, with 34 color plates and his own poems. He has also self-published One Tire Fire (2019) and Hide Me in the Honeysuckle Patch (2021).
