Buffalo Funk Fest Weekend 2023 brings three days of music, dancing, art, roller skating and celebrating to the East Side of Buffalo, kicking off this evening with a block party
Don Billingsley prepares for a game.
When I answer the phone to speak with photographer Robert Clark, the Kansas native is calling from his car as he makes the 18-hour drive from New York to visit his ailing father. His father’s condition is a reminder that many years have passed since 1988, when 28-year-old Clark, his career just beginning, caught his big break photographing the Permian Panthers in Odessa for Buzz Bissinger’s
Friday Night Lights. He couldn’t have known that book would go on to be a cultural staple that inspired a popular movie and nationally beloved TV show.