Variety asked Maggio to select his favorite Parks’ images and explain why he chose them.“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty,” Parks once explained. “I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did,” he continued, “but I chose not to go that way.”— Diane Garrett.
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