Parks recalls finding a magazine left behind by a passenger on the train which contained a portfolio of photographs of migrant workers and the terrible conditions in which they lived. So moved was Parks by those photographs that he went out and bought his first camera, a Voightlander Brilliant, at a pawnshop for $7.50. He states that this first purchase was “not much of camera, but a great name to toss around. I had bought what was to become my first weapon against poverty and racism.”
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Pamela Bannos finds old film to recreate in an effort to preserve the past but also to change it. These orbs of fantastic light invoke questions about nature and the universe.
