Around the galleries
Apollo
March 2026
Born into poverty and segregation in 1912, the self-taught photographer Gordon parks became one of the foremost chroniclers of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This exhibition marking 20 years since Parks’s death is curated by the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson; his selection of photographs from 1942-1967 ranges from a portrait of Malcom X to a photo of a Black man’s hand clutching a cigarette through the bars of a prison cell. […]