FORT SCOTT, Kan. An Arts and Culture grant through the Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas helped support the 20th Annual Gordon Parks Celebration, which will be held Oct. 5 through Oct. …
At 25, Parks purchased his first camera for $12.50 at a pawn shop. His skills were self-taught, but his mother’s “love, dignity and hard work” and his life experience guided
Photographer, author, journalist, film director, composer, musician. Gordon Parks broke ground in every creative landscape he chose. He may be the most accomplished artist Kansas has ever produced.