Kirk and Will, 2010

My photography carries the imprint of 25 years as a practicing architect.

I am interested in the environments that we construct for ourselves and how time imprints and alters the relationships between us and the built world. The visual evidence of the passage of time influences the merging of my passions for architecture and photography. I make photographs that engage buildings and topographies as inhabited, experiential settings within the landscape. 

My ongoing project dissecting the infrastructural history of Seattle's Duwamish River is a direct result of these interests, as well as an engagement of childhood memories of years spent on the industrialized rivers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

Clients: Bloom Studio, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, DCI Engineers, Frelard Tamales, Green Seattle Partnership, Heldridge Construction, Luclle Street Collective, Magnussen Klemencic Associates, Pearl & Stone Wine Co., Ryan Rhodes Designs, Inc, The Shattered Glass Project, Studio SkH, Su Development, Splitting Silence, URBANADD Architects, Wittman Estes

Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Virginia Tech, 1993 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA

Exhibits/CV:

2023 Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland OR 1889 Washington’s Magazine, February/March, Methow Valley Cabin Feature Photographs 2022 Photo Zine and Book Fair, Photographic Center NW, Seattle WA Duwamish Remains, URBANADD Gallery, Seattle WA 2021 Portfolio Walk, Photographic Center NW, Seattle WA. Narrative in Photography, Photographic Center NW, Seattle WA. Photo Noir, Photoplace Gallery (virtual) 2020 Duwamish Crossings, AIA Center for Architecture and Design SAF Model Exhibit, Seattle WA Notions of Home, Photographic Center NW, Seattle WA

Books: Duwamish Remains dissects the infrastructural history of Seattle's Duwamish River through photographs Quarantine Portraits (An Isolated Collaboration of Friends and Objects), compiles portraits of friends and colleagues with objects of their choosing that gained significance to them during COVID’s strange quarantined spring of 2020

 
 
 
 
 
In 1916, the 5-year construction of the Fremont Cut was completed. This canal would eventually re-route Lake Washington’s out-flow, render extinct Renton’s Black River, and remove a 1,120 square mile watershed from the Duwamish River. . .
Honored that 10 photograph’s from my ongoing Duwamish Remains (link in bio) project have been selected as part of @blueskygallerypdx annual 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers. Also honored to be featured right next to @photocenternw friend and teac
Mazama Cabin, 2021 for @urbanadd_architects . #mazama #methow #forest #cabin #home
...getting back into it... #nightwalks #neighborhood
Excited to be participating in the @photocenternw inaugural zine and book fair featuring books by 50 photographers. I will be showing my Duwamish Remains books, as well as Quarantine Portraits and a few miscellaneous things. If you have nothing else
Duwamish Remains UA Gallery Thursday June 2, 2022 1936 First Ave South, SODO, Seattle . @duwamishremains @urbanadd_architects #duwamishremains #duwamishriver #duwamishterritory #duwamishwatershed #duwamish #duwamishmeanders #duwamishwaterway #riverfo
Duwamish Remains UA Gallery June 2 2022 1932 First Ave South, SODO, Seattle . @duwamishremains @urbanadd_architects #duwamishremains #duwamishriver #duwamishterritory #duwamishwatershed #duwamish #duwamishmeanders #duwamishwaterway
Max in His Bedroom, 2019 One of my favorite photos I've made of my son (and my Aunt Judy). Created for a @photocenternw class led by @mollylandreth...thanks Molly for pushing me to look further.
Walking Gracie in the Alley, 2019 . #alley #walkthedog #nightwalks
Henry’s Giving Tree, 2020 An homage to Shel Silversteen’s transcendent book, Henry and I created these images for a @photocenternw class led by @jennyriffle. Jenny and I both like trees. I like Henry. If Jenny met Henry she would like him
Las Vegas, April 2019 #gwenstefani #advertisement #vegas
...while i was on vacation and taking pictures, a young human being stepped into my 79 second exposure...he stood still for about 30 seconds...i dont know why...then he ran off...
#neighborhood #nightwalks
The Springbrook Creek Wetland and Habitat Mitigation Bank traded credits for acres of developed land. The Unit A boardwalk offers a surprisingly pleasant stroll through a sprawling, retained wetland in south Renton. This drainage and runoff network f
This place has at least two translated names: Confluence of Waters / Meeting of Rivers. Prior to 1916, the now extinct Black River fed a 1,120 square mile watershed to the Duwamish at this confluence. Today it pulls 25 square miles of drainage and ru
1907 Duwamish meanders through the 2022 Duwamish Waterway . . . #duwamishremains #georgetownseattle #duwamishriver #duwamishterritory #duwamishwatershed #duwamish #duwamishmeanders #duwamishwaterway
..in 1920 the Dredging was suspended at present day Salmon Cove Park / Turning Basin, though a few ambitious 19th Century visionaries hoped to extend it to Tacoma...nevertheless, the Duwamish remains... . #duwamishremains . “A turning basin or
...one-hundred years after The Dredging...#duwamishremains
mossy trees, in the North Cascades, in the morning light . #mosssytrees #northcascades
…just over a century ago Lake Washington and its 1,100 square mile watershed drained to the south via the now distinct Black River. Within present day City of Renton, the Black was joined by the Cedar, and combined they flowed westward, to the

all work copyright Kirk Hostetter Photography