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Soulumination Photographer Application - WA State

Thank you for being interested in donating your time and talent to our mission. We serve families in Washington State. This work is very meaningful, and can be very difficult. We serve children 18 and under facing life threatening conditions. Some of our sessions are 'end of life' sessions where the child is removed from life support. We will review your application and be in touch if we believe you are a good fit for our organization.

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We are currently based primarily in the Seattle area. We work with Seattle Children’s Hospital, Ronald MacDonald House, UW, Providence, Swedish, Evergreen, and Valley Medical Centers. We also work closely with Mary Bridge in Tacoma and Tacoma General, as well as the Multi-Care system in the South Sound area. We have recently expanded our services to include Spokane and the surrounding area hospitals. We always try to offer sessions to you that make the most sense for you and your commute time.

Soulumination Sessions are scheduled at the family's convience, either through them or a social worker. Sessions are often in the hospital, outside at a park, or in the family’s home. Generally at least one parent is present and often with both parents, siblings, and extended family members attending. The children for whom we photograph are aged 0-18 years and are facing life-threatening illnesses. The child does not have to be terminal for us to photograph them. Sometimes the child can move around and play, and other times where they can’t leave their bed and may be unable to move due to medical equipment. We do sessions when the child is coming off of life-support and the family asks for photos before the removal of life support only, after the equipment has been removed but only up until the child passes, or a combination of this including photos after the child’s passing. It can be very heart-breaking but rewarding work.

Our photographers are never obligated to take a session. When we get a request, we will text you. If you are available – great!  We will get you booked and send you all of the details we have. If you are not available, we will try you again next time.

We also work with adults. We photograph for families with children ages 0-18 years whose parent is facing a life- threatening condition. A lot of our adult sessions are in the family’s home, but can be in any facility where they may be staying. 

Your time commitment as a Volunteer Photographer with Soulumination can be as much as you would like. We have photographers who do several sessions a month and some who shoot for us twice a year. We do understand the value of your time and what a commitment that in itself can be.

Our photographers generally Dropbox us their edited images or they send us an invitation to access them online through Smug Mug, ShootProof, One Drive etc.  Very little editing should be done to your images. We strive to make our Soulumination Sessions a cohesive body of work so we ask our photographers to aim for timeless, classic photos in order to achieve this across the board. Once we receive your images, your work is complete. We ask that you delete all files from your sessions 2 weeks after we reecieve them.

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Please include a short bio to accompany your headshot on our website
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The volunteer programs within Soulumination are dependent on a climate of mutual trust between volunteers and the individuals and/or families we serve. Volunteers must maintain the confidentiality of personal information they receive about our clients. Identifying information about individuals and/or families served by Soulumination must not be shared outside of the agency. Such information includes (but is not limited to) names, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs, conditions, etc. Soulumination strives to guard the dignity and privacy of everyone we serve. Personal information of an identifying nature may not be shared with the volunteer’s family, friends, acquaintances, discussed on social media or disclosed in any other way except with Soulumination Staff. I also agree to assign all rights, title and interest in any photographs I take for Soulumination to Soulumination, to use at its sole discretion, and acknowledge any compensation received by Soulumination for the use of any photograph(s) I take shall belong solely to Soulumination.
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Given the sensitive nature of our work, all photographers must agree to a criminal history background check
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