Winfield Parks was a photographer for National Geographic magazine. He unfortunately lived a very short life (1932-1977), dying of a heart attack. Parks lived in Washington, DC, though a majority of his work was done abroad in different countries. He won awards for both feature and news photography at his job at the Providence Journal-Bulletin (journal based in Rhode Island, where he was born). He stated in 1956 that the modern-day photographer "must be more than a camera operator", which is a statement which I agree with.
I am interested in Parks' photographs, because of how different each one is. You can clearly see in the three photographs above that his interests stem from many different places (people, places, etc.) You can see the amount of time that Parks puts into making his photographs, especially in the last photo with the placement of his camera in relation to the trees. The trees really set up and entire narrative happening in the photograph.
He has no website, so here is the link to the Wikipedia page on him:
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