I created this business with the Mission to Preserve & Celebrate the Photographers and Photohistory of the Salish Sea and Pacific Northwest Regions of North America. I receive no grant funding and operate as a private stock photography business funding preservation and restoration of historical photographs only by Sales and Licensing of Images in my collection.
The collection comprises a diverse array of photography-related materials including original negatives and positives on glass and film. It encompasses the full spectrum of the photographic medium as its technology progressed someone was there to record it relates to the fascinating journey through time captured by the art of photography. If you are looking for a person I have entreated genealogy negatives to the Washington State Archives.
Should you be interested in how I came to this work.... here is a story written about this event
I'll post the second page soon as I locate again...
Susan at the light table examining an 8x10 negative., 1984 by Carl Cook
I came to photography as it was my dad's hobby and I escaped its eye by getting behind the lens. I came to history because of the Jeffers Studio Archives I purchased to save a community legacy.
Having been born and raised in the Southern Puget Sound region of the Salish Sea, my soul has always been tied to its deep forests and wild shorelines and cognizant and sensitive of rapid changes during my lifetime. And, I just love its many stories of adventure and discovery as one of the last settlements ...as there are photos documenting it.
My interest in photography began with my father's interest and I started capturing my own images in 1957, after acquiring my first box camera by sending in cereal box tops. After college studying Humanities and Communications I became a professional photographer and journalist in 1976 creating visual stories on film and in traveling displays. While working on a project for the WA State Legislature in 1982, I discovered the chaos of photography studio archives privately owned and those in government care and formally established The Susan Parish Collection of Photography and purchased The Jeffers Art Studio Collection. To further share my work, I founded Shadow Catchers in 1989 as the distributor and production arm for my photographic-based products, utilizing images licensed from my personal photographs and those in my collection. To View my own photographs and art - look under Artists