Award Recipient

2012

WDHOF/Elizabeth Greenhalgh Memorial Scholarship in Journalism, Graphic Arts, or Photography

Susannah Snowden

Susannah is an underwater archaeology photographer, award-winning photojournalist and freelance photographer. She was 11 years old when she first learned about underwater archaeology and was instantly hooked! Susannah started diving in high school, then studied archaeology and ancient art history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts (B.A. cum laude), simultaneously honing her photography skills. By combining her passions for diving, underwater archaeology and photography, she has achieved her dream career. To date Susannah has excavated and photographed five historically important underwater shipwrecks in Egypt, Turkey, Spain and Sri Lanka. Photographs she shot of a 2nd century BC shipwreck excavation in Sri Lanka were recently published in both Archaeology and Science magazines. Possibly her proudest moment so far happened in the fall of 2014 when one of her photographs, and a video she shot and edited, of the 7th century Bajo de la Campana Phoenician shipwreck excavation were featured in a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit (“Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age”). Susannah and her husband recently moved to Grand Cayman where she is shooting underwater photography daily while awaiting her next underwater excavation.

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