Digital photography has brought many changes and challenges to our industry, including the way we preserve our images. Unlike with film or glass negatives, digital images can be easily deleted with the touch of a key. Will the images we create today exist tomorrow? How we archive may make the difference in whether or not our images will be accessible to future generations. Or even, to ourselves.
It’s an issue facing WWU archivist Beth Joffrion everyday. She will talk about her work and discuss resources to improve and assist in the way we archive and preserve our images. Aerial and landscape photographer John Scurlock, who’s currently working on a project for Portland State University, will share how he catalogs and stores his images. We will share our own systems, problems, concerns and questions about storing and retrieving our images.
The program will be Tuesday, May 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the Washington State Archives located on the south end of the WWU campus at the corner of 25th Street and Bill McDonald Parkway. Parking is free and available in the parking lot directly across the street from the archives on 25th Street. The program is free to PPW members and students, $5 for non-members.
Elizabeth Joffrion is the director of Heritage Resources at Western Washington University where she leads the Libraries’ Collections, University Archives and Record Center, and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. Prior to this position, she was a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, where she coordinated the Preservation Assistance Grants Program. Before joining NEH in 2006, she was the head archivist at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (WWU) and affiliated faculty in its graduate program in archives and records management. She has held professional positions at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, North Carolina State Archives, and the Historic New Orleans Collection.
John Scurlock has been photographing mountains and glaciers from the air since 2002. He has provided images for scientists at USGS, Department of the Interior/National Park Service, US Forest Service, Parks Canada, BC Parks, Western Washington University, University of Washington, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Northern British Columbia. He is currently working with scientists at Portland State University to photograph every glacier in the lower 48 states from the air. Scurlock’s images have appeared in numerous publications such as The American Alpine Journal, Canadian Alpine Journal, Journal of Glaciology, Alpinist Magazine, Ski Journal, and Climbing Magazine. He is also a climber, skier, and dedicated ground-based landscape photographer who has spent much time afoot in wild mountainous regions. His acclaimed book, ‘Snow & Spire: Flights to Winter in the North Cascade Range’, was published in November, 2011.
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Please RSVP to Mark Turner <mark@turnerphotographics.com> or 360-671-6851 by May 4.
