Biography
Aaron Hemens is an award-winning journalist and photographer with IndigiNews. He is mixed Filipino and Canadian, living in syilx Okanagan territory in British Columbia, Canada. His pictures and stories have been published in the Associated Press, the Canadian Press, the Globe and Mail, CBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Narwhal, HuffPost, APTN News, Inuvik Drum, and more. In 2022 and 2023, he won gold in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards’ best photo-journalism category. He was named as a finalist for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in 2023, and for three Ma Murray Community News media awards in 2021. Aaron is an alumnus of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, and was selected as the recipient of the Mitch Jacobson Memorial Award in Photo-Journalism in 2018. He was also a mentee in Room Up Front – a Canadian Photojournalism mentorship for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour – in its inaugural year in 2020.