“Faces of Downtown”A Slide Show Tribute to Northampton in the 1980s and 1990s

Nighttime photograph of a slideshow being projected onto a white clapboard house. The image is of a man holsing a small dog with a Main Street building in the background

Event Details

Friday, June 12, 2026 at 8:30pm

In memory of the local artists, activists, musicians, politicians, and entrepreneurs ​who played a role in Northampton’s revitalization in the 1980s and 1990s.

Sixty portrait photographs by Paul Shoul will run on a continuous loop as an outdoor slideshow projected on Parsons House 58 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA 01060.

Sorting through thousands of his photographs, Northampton resident and internationally known photographer Paul Shoul has chosen sixty portraits in memory of the local artists, activists, musicians, politicians, and entrepreneurs who played a role in Northampton’s revitalization in the 1980s and 1990s. Shoul will narrate this special slideshow and be on-hand for conversation.

About The Photographer

Paul Shoul is a Northampton-based photojournalist. As a photographer for UPI, The Valley Advocate, Preview Magazine, Business West, The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times, he covered Western Mass during the formative times of the 1980s and 1990s. 

Photograph by Paul Shoul. Historic Northampton (ID 2026.24.) View more images