Wallie Funk leaves his mark on the area
Ruth Steele, archivist for the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, said Funk’s impact as a photojournalist stretched far and wide.
“There is a lot to learn with what Wallie did and how engaged he was,” Steele said.
The center, which has about 50,000 prints and negatives of Funk’s, had a hard time deciding which photos to display during a Western Washington University exhibit of his work last year, Steele said.
“You have the whale capture images that are haunting,” she said. “You also have the ordinary images of people in the community like a young boy and a bird cage that are also stunning ... It was hard to choose.”
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