Luke Hollister
He/Him, Visual Journalist
About
Luke Hollister is URM’s Visual Journalist whose primary role involves capturing photos and videos while finding stories to tell throughout the WWU community. He captures various happenings across WWU, ranging from environmental science field work in the North Cascades to student activities such as the yearly fall info fair. He also photographs for Western Today and Window Magazine.
Luke grew up hiking on trails in the Pacific Northwest. That’s where he first found inspiration as a photographer and where he still spends much of his time.
His photojournalism journey began at his college newspaper, The Daily Evergreen. After graduating Washington State University with a degree in journalism, Luke photographed and wrote about various topics such as wildfires, elections, the lack of affordable housing, protests, backpacking and art. His work has been published across Washington. He’s also pretty enthusiastic about going outside, and spends much of his summers backpacking around the Cascades. His favorite mountain is Index and favorite tree is a larch (obviously). On the rare occasion when Luke isn’t holding an oversized camera, he can also be spotted hammocking at Oyster Dome and creating mellow electronic music – specifically on a semi-modular synth Luke is figuring out how to use.
Since moving to Bellingham, Luke has also been learning the basics of mountaineering, so he can explore, climb and appreciate our local glaciers. Luke also enjoys: Alpine lakes, shooting 35mm film, all of July, rocks, larches, star trails, adding way too much reverb fx, making pesto, ferns, cool knots, that first sunny/warm day we always get in March where everyone runs outside because it’s been dark for so long, alpenglow and fresh blackberries.