Kathleen M. (Kasz) Maciag passed away on September 9, 2016, of complications from pancreatic cancer, in Seattle, Washington.
Kasz was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, NY, into two Polish-American families. She attended St. Michael's Academy in Manhattan and Hunter College, after which she began a long career in the photography industry: she worked as a
photographer, she held management and executive positions in the stock photography industry and then in the digital stock photography industry.
She trained many of the industry's key employees over three decades at The Stock Market, Corbis, PhotoDisc, and Getty Images. Her deep and wide
knowledge of the industry made her a valued expert witness, and her skill at explaining the industry made her popular with attorneys. After her career in digital stock photography, she was a product-development executive at MediaNet Digital and for The Walt Disney Company's online properties. Throughout her career she inspired her colleagues with her ability to see all situations as they were and to call a spade a spade, often with a perfectly timed expletive. She always knew when it was time to leave work
early for happy hour or the shooting range to keep work and life in balance. She never failed to make time for those who needed mentoring or career advice.
Kasz was strongly committed to volunteer work. She supported Lambda Legal's Seattle fundraising efforts for many years and worked on the successful campaign for marriage equality in Washington state in 2012, managing phone banks and outreach efforts. As she completed an extensive family tree for the Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families, she was inspired by help shereceived in that effort and became a volunteer photographer for FindAGrave, an online database of burial records, data, and photographs. When she died, she had contributed more than 9,000 photographs.
Kasz loved history, especially the history of New York City, and read widely. She loved her Jack Russells Augie and Loki. She liked to travel and
to stop at tourist information offices for brochures, even when they were available online, and read them out loud. She liked new experiences but not new foods. She liked beaches and sun but not snow, or most of nature: "I'm
from Brooklyn" was her usual response to such discussions. She liked Sunday dinner at home, but not leftovers. Above all she loved her family: her wife Anne, her sisters and their families, and the extended Krook, Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families. She and Anne traveled to family events all over the globe and spent time especially with younger cousins, who flocked to Kasz for advice, conversation, and fun.
Survivors include her wife Anne Krook; sister- and brother-in-law Anita and John Brenner, and niece and nephew Elsa and Teddy Brenner; mother-in-law Nancy Krook; the extended Krook family; sister Marianne Maciag Hargrove, brother-in-law Chris Hargrove, and nephews Bryan and Jonathan Hargrove; sister Andrea Maciag Romstad and partner Bill Holley and his son Will Holley; and the extended Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families.
Kasz was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, NY, into two Polish-American families. She attended St. Michael's Academy in Manhattan and Hunter College, after which she began a long career in the photography industry: she worked as a
photographer, she held management and executive positions in the stock photography industry and then in the digital stock photography industry.
She trained many of the industry's key employees over three decades at The Stock Market, Corbis, PhotoDisc, and Getty Images. Her deep and wide
knowledge of the industry made her a valued expert witness, and her skill at explaining the industry made her popular with attorneys. After her career in digital stock photography, she was a product-development executive at MediaNet Digital and for The Walt Disney Company's online properties. Throughout her career she inspired her colleagues with her ability to see all situations as they were and to call a spade a spade, often with a perfectly timed expletive. She always knew when it was time to leave work
early for happy hour or the shooting range to keep work and life in balance. She never failed to make time for those who needed mentoring or career advice.
Kasz was strongly committed to volunteer work. She supported Lambda Legal's Seattle fundraising efforts for many years and worked on the successful campaign for marriage equality in Washington state in 2012, managing phone banks and outreach efforts. As she completed an extensive family tree for the Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families, she was inspired by help shereceived in that effort and became a volunteer photographer for FindAGrave, an online database of burial records, data, and photographs. When she died, she had contributed more than 9,000 photographs.
Kasz loved history, especially the history of New York City, and read widely. She loved her Jack Russells Augie and Loki. She liked to travel and
to stop at tourist information offices for brochures, even when they were available online, and read them out loud. She liked new experiences but not new foods. She liked beaches and sun but not snow, or most of nature: "I'm
from Brooklyn" was her usual response to such discussions. She liked Sunday dinner at home, but not leftovers. Above all she loved her family: her wife Anne, her sisters and their families, and the extended Krook, Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families. She and Anne traveled to family events all over the globe and spent time especially with younger cousins, who flocked to Kasz for advice, conversation, and fun.
Survivors include her wife Anne Krook; sister- and brother-in-law Anita and John Brenner, and niece and nephew Elsa and Teddy Brenner; mother-in-law Nancy Krook; the extended Krook family; sister Marianne Maciag Hargrove, brother-in-law Chris Hargrove, and nephews Bryan and Jonathan Hargrove; sister Andrea Maciag Romstad and partner Bill Holley and his son Will Holley; and the extended Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families.
Kathleen M. (Kasz) Maciag passed away on September 9, 2016, of complications from pancreatic cancer, in Seattle, Washington.
Kasz was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, NY, into two Polish-American families. She attended St. Michael's Academy in Manhattan and Hunter College, after which she began a long career in the photography industry: she worked as a
photographer, she held management and executive positions in the stock photography industry and then in the digital stock photography industry.
She trained many of the industry's key employees over three decades at The Stock Market, Corbis, PhotoDisc, and Getty Images. Her deep and wide
knowledge of the industry made her a valued expert witness, and her skill at explaining the industry made her popular with attorneys. After her career in digital stock photography, she was a product-development executive at MediaNet Digital and for The Walt Disney Company's online properties. Throughout her career she inspired her colleagues with her ability to see all situations as they were and to call a spade a spade, often with a perfectly timed expletive. She always knew when it was time to leave work
early for happy hour or the shooting range to keep work and life in balance. She never failed to make time for those who needed mentoring or career advice.
Kasz was strongly committed to volunteer work. She supported Lambda Legal's Seattle fundraising efforts for many years and worked on the successful campaign for marriage equality in Washington state in 2012, managing phone banks and outreach efforts. As she completed an extensive family tree for the Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families, she was inspired by help shereceived in that effort and became a volunteer photographer for FindAGrave, an online database of burial records, data, and photographs. When she died, she had contributed more than 9,000 photographs.
Kasz loved history, especially the history of New York City, and read widely. She loved her Jack Russells Augie and Loki. She liked to travel and
to stop at tourist information offices for brochures, even when they were available online, and read them out loud. She liked new experiences but not new foods. She liked beaches and sun but not snow, or most of nature: "I'm
from Brooklyn" was her usual response to such discussions. She liked Sunday dinner at home, but not leftovers. Above all she loved her family: her wife Anne, her sisters and their families, and the extended Krook, Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families. She and Anne traveled to family events all over the globe and spent time especially with younger cousins, who flocked to Kasz for advice, conversation, and fun.
Survivors include her wife Anne Krook; sister- and brother-in-law Anita and John Brenner, and niece and nephew Elsa and Teddy Brenner; mother-in-law Nancy Krook; the extended Krook family; sister Marianne Maciag Hargrove, brother-in-law Chris Hargrove, and nephews Bryan and Jonathan Hargrove; sister Andrea Maciag Romstad and partner Bill Holley and his son Will Holley; and the extended Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families.
Kasz was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, NY, into two Polish-American families. She attended St. Michael's Academy in Manhattan and Hunter College, after which she began a long career in the photography industry: she worked as a
photographer, she held management and executive positions in the stock photography industry and then in the digital stock photography industry.
She trained many of the industry's key employees over three decades at The Stock Market, Corbis, PhotoDisc, and Getty Images. Her deep and wide
knowledge of the industry made her a valued expert witness, and her skill at explaining the industry made her popular with attorneys. After her career in digital stock photography, she was a product-development executive at MediaNet Digital and for The Walt Disney Company's online properties. Throughout her career she inspired her colleagues with her ability to see all situations as they were and to call a spade a spade, often with a perfectly timed expletive. She always knew when it was time to leave work
early for happy hour or the shooting range to keep work and life in balance. She never failed to make time for those who needed mentoring or career advice.
Kasz was strongly committed to volunteer work. She supported Lambda Legal's Seattle fundraising efforts for many years and worked on the successful campaign for marriage equality in Washington state in 2012, managing phone banks and outreach efforts. As she completed an extensive family tree for the Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families, she was inspired by help shereceived in that effort and became a volunteer photographer for FindAGrave, an online database of burial records, data, and photographs. When she died, she had contributed more than 9,000 photographs.
Kasz loved history, especially the history of New York City, and read widely. She loved her Jack Russells Augie and Loki. She liked to travel and
to stop at tourist information offices for brochures, even when they were available online, and read them out loud. She liked new experiences but not new foods. She liked beaches and sun but not snow, or most of nature: "I'm
from Brooklyn" was her usual response to such discussions. She liked Sunday dinner at home, but not leftovers. Above all she loved her family: her wife Anne, her sisters and their families, and the extended Krook, Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families. She and Anne traveled to family events all over the globe and spent time especially with younger cousins, who flocked to Kasz for advice, conversation, and fun.
Survivors include her wife Anne Krook; sister- and brother-in-law Anita and John Brenner, and niece and nephew Elsa and Teddy Brenner; mother-in-law Nancy Krook; the extended Krook family; sister Marianne Maciag Hargrove, brother-in-law Chris Hargrove, and nephews Bryan and Jonathan Hargrove; sister Andrea Maciag Romstad and partner Bill Holley and his son Will Holley; and the extended Maciag, Zaleski, and Majkowski families.
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