Dan Hawkins is a Seattle based photographer who has spent the better part of 20 years documenting historic and forgotten architecture. His personal work often deals with the themes of memory and decay. 

Beginning with empty houses and discarded water towers he has gone on to photograph deserted nuclear facilities, chemical factories, decaying ballrooms, crumbling hotels, and a number of derelict mental hospitals and jails. Using photography as the primary means to bring the isolation of these places to the viewer he has traveled the country in search of abandoned spaces. Working with a small network of associates he has managed to see many of the nations lost treasures of industry and tour its forgotten mental health legacy. He is currently working on a body of photographs from a recent trip touring the nuclear infrastructure of central and northern France.