About

My name’s Hunter Aarniokoski. I’ve been fascinated with the built environment since seeing my first photo of the Great Pyramids of Giza. As a kid obsessed with Indiana Jones, I was entranced by these testaments to what we had it in us to accomplish. They helped me see too how powerful photographs are for the built environment, as pictures are still the only way I’ve experienced many of my favorite buildings.  

I love all things handmade, learning about as many new subjects as I’ve got time for, and I’m on a lifelong journey to stay as mindful and present as I can. A lot of that is reflected in my process; I want to hear as much about your work and the story of your project as there’s physically time for. It’s vital in order to properly convey the time and passion that goes into your work.

Over the years, I’ve gotten to inhabit and capture a wide variety of projects all over the country, sometimes even the wider world. I’ve learned what goes into these massive undertakings, how each client's values and tastes make a project fulfilling. How even the most ethereal feeling is invited or expressed through the physical world around us. The subtle choices that make a home or a venue or a communal space feel like we belong in it, that it was always there

I count myself as very lucky to see the result of so much care and hard work put into these projects. It’s the thing I look forward to the most on any job, getting to enter a whole new world and experience its story through my clients. 

On every shoot, my highest priority is to foster an environment that welcomes all voices, and that’s open and accepting of new ideas. You know your project best, I’m there to celebrate all that hard work. I deeply enjoy that when I’m working with clients, I’m not just photographing for them, I’m photographing with them. I offer them not only my skills, but my outlook, process, and thinking. When we’re working together as a team, the work shows and is always the better for it.