Caren’s Value Portraits

Gordon Parks is an american photographer, who was born in November 1912 in Kansas.  Parks was born in poverty, but later got in fame for his professional photographs. He was interested in photography at a young age when he saw some magazines with pictures of workers. When he got enough money, he then bought a camera and learned how to use it by himself. In 1942, he won the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship award. This accomplishment helped him obtain works with different agencies, such as Farm Security Administration (FSA), and later the Office of War Information (OWI). Parks take pictures as a way to go against racism, and poverty.