Sports journalism through the lens of the Seahawks' chief photographer
Apr 26, 2021
Corky Trewin of Seattle Seahawks
Sports journalism through the lens of the Seahawks' chief photographer
Seattle Seahawks photographer Corky Trewin will present a program on sports photography based on a lifetime of devotion to photo journalism in athletics.
In 1978, Trewin asked for and was granted Seahawks sideline credentials basically trying out for the team as a “free agent” photographer. In 1979, he was retained by the Seahawks as the team photographer as well as the photographer for the Norm Evans Seahawks Report, a weekly magazine devoted to the Seahawks.
In 1980 Trewin was hired by the Seattle Mariners as team photographer, and then became the Seattle Super Sonics team photographer in 1984. He has worked for the Seattle Sounders, Tacoma Stars and Seattle Thunderbirds as well as the University of Washington Athletic department. He has photographed 16 Super Bowls, five Final Fours, two Olympics Games as well as the Moscow and Seattle Goodwill Games.
Currently Trewin is the team photographer for the Seahawks and the Sounders FC as well as a local event and college, high school and youth sports photographer.
After graduating from Redmond High School in 1972, Trewin received a journalism scholarship to attend and graduated in 1977 from the University of Kansas, majoring in journalism at the William Allen White School of Journalism.