The Back Room Boys

Like all organizations, the PHSC depends upon a few hardy volunteers who work hard behind the scenes to give our organization a professional face. You would be surprised to learn just how small this group is - all making use of talents learned in the day to day job, or picked up after hours through classes and hobbies.

Within our small group, we have skills including photography, videography, sound system set-up, web design and administration, magazine publication, finance, business administration, writing, editing, selling, promotion, maintenance, illustration, and more - skills common to successful businesses everywhere. But for our society, this work is done gratis - for the love of photography and the history of that marvelous art and science that stormed the world in 1839 and left it changed for ever.

Our "Wet Plate Guy" logo was selected years ago by then editor, Everett Roseborough (still running his studio at the time). Ev decided our journal, Photographic Canadiana, needed a logo and C. LaPlante's little woodcut of an "Intrepid Wet-Plate Enthusiast" of the mid 1800s became part of our society as "a gentle reminder of our purpose". 

Everett would flip the image from time to time - perhaps as an inside joke. You might like to know that Everett, who turned 95 last year, took on the task of editor at an age when many people were well into retirement. His most recent article, on  pre-1930 commercial photography, was published in January of this year.