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 both educational and entertaining. Ms. Parish believes strongly in supporting community strength and pride in local heritage by providing educational opportunities to the community.

For more information or to schedule a Photo-Historical Program for your school or organization

email:  Shadow Catchers Society

CURRENT LIST OF TOPICS FOR PROGRAMS

Choose one of the following or request a particular subject or on a specific location.  All programs include visuals by digital presentation, information and open discussion with questions encouraged from audience.

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

• "A Photographic History of Greater Olympia",  An Overview of Olympia's History in Photographs

• "Children of Thurston County"  Images of Children, Families and Play from 1880 to 1950

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

• "Thurston County's Early Rail History"

* The image history of your organization could very well be in this archive. 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. email Susan at Shadow Catchers Society

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 & VOLUNTEERS

We regularly accept college and selected high school interns to work with Shadow Catchers 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.

Volunteers Needed

Photo Shows;  Framing;  Printing;  Database Images; Digital Imaging and Research

We often Trade Out Services in Photographs and/or Framing Services

Inquire by email to:   Shadow Catchers' Society