Serhii Chrucky, Architectural Photographer

Serhii Chrucky has been photographing buildings for more than twenty-five years. He started as a high school student in Chicago, documenting the city's L stations before their renovation, and began working professionally in 2005 in photojournalism, event, and product photography. In 2006, he co-founded Forgotten Chicago, a project documenting the city's overlooked built environment, which he helped run until 2011. He earned a BFA from the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Design in 2010 and an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2013.

In 2015, he began specializing exclusively in architectural photography, working in Chicago until returning to St. Louis in 2022. He photographs projects for architecture, landscape architecture, and design firms, as well as building product manufacturers and cultural nonprofits, producing images used in award submissions, publications, and new business proposals. He has been represented by Esto since 2023.

His photographs of Helmut Jahn's James R. Thompson Center supported Preservation Chicago's successful campaign to save the building. His work on Love Bank Park, a St. Louis pocket park by Patterhn Ives and Arbolope Studio, accompanied the project through a run of design awards.

His images have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Dwell, Artforum, The Architectural Review, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. He has lectured on photography at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the University of St. Francis, Maryville University, and Craft Alliance. He served on the board of Docomomo Chicago and is an allied member of the American Institute of Architects.

He is a co-creator of Archdata, a new digital architectural guide launching with a pilot in St. Louis.