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PHOTO-HISTORY PROGRAMS & EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

 

Susan Parish has been teaching photography and regional history for over 25 years. Her digitally projected photo-history programs are educational and entertaining. Parish believes strongly in supporting community strength and pride by providing educational opportunities to communities.

For more information or to schedule a Photo-Historical Program for your school or organization.   Email:  Susan Parish & Shadow Catchers Society

 

CURRENT LIST OF TOPICS

 

Choose one of the following or request a particular subject or specific location.  All programs include narrative, projected visuals and open discussion with questions encouraged from the audience.  Please provide a large screen at location.

PHOTOGRAPHY SUBJECTS

  • "Shadow Catching in Southern Puget Sound".   An overview and history of The Susan Parish Collection of Photography including short bios and images made by some of the photographers

  • "Early Shadow Catchers of the Southern Puget Sound".  An Overview of Regional Photographers prior to 1940

  • "Ars Gratis Artis - Art For Art's Sake"  The Photographic Art of South Sound Photographers 1870 - 1970

  • "The Jeffers Studio Collection"  The Art & Lives of Joe and Vibert Jeffers

  • "Olympia's Photo-Journalist:  Merle Junk"

  • "Pioneer Women Photographers of Washington:  Mary Rowland Mires"

OTHER SUBJECTS

  • "Washington's State Capitol Buildings ~ 1880 to Present"

  • "Old Olympia ~ A Photographic History of a Capitol City"

  • "Children of Thurston County".  Images of Children, Families and Play from 1880 to 1950.  A School Children's Favorite.

  • "Tum Chuck".  Photo-History of the earliest American communities on Puget Sound.  Tumwater, Tumwater Falls on the Deschutes River and the Olympia Brewery Washington

  • "Early Railroad History on Budd Inlet".  Early Passenger Rail to the Capitol City and Beyond

  • "Your Company or Organization's History!"  The image history of your organization could very well be in Parish's Photography Collection. For a fee, your images can be researched and made into a program for your group. You must provide a history overview or timeline for the research.

PHOTO ARCHIVE MANAGEMENT

  • "So Many Photographs - So Little Time", Organizing your Photographs & Negatives".

  • "What Year Was This Taken?". Identifying Historic Photographic Processes by examination of the image contents and original paper or negative.

SUBJECTS IN THE MAKING....

  • "Who Are We?".  Our Vanishing Regional Heritage.  A photo journey of lost cultural heritage sites & buildings.

  • "Port of Olympia Photo-History"

  • "Aviation Photo-History of Thurston County"

  • "Maritime Photo-History of Budd Inlet"

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INTERNSHIPS

We regularly accept college interns to work with Shadow Catchers & The Susan Parish Collection ~ Learning Photograph Archive Data Management, Arts Management, Digital Imaging, Advanced Black & White Darkroom Skills, Art Framing, Historical Research, Web Site Design and Management and other disciplines.