Brilliant Things to Do This March
Daisy Woodward, AnOther
March 2026
Speaking in 1967, the American photographer Gordon Parks explained that the camera was his “choice of weapon against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty”. Over the course of more than five decades, Parks used his camera to foreground the experiences of the marginalised and the poor, as well as the activists, like Martin Luther King and Malcom X, fighting for meaningful change. This month, the renowned social justice activist Attorney Bryan Stevenson will curate a show of Parks’s work at Alison Jacques gallery in London, celebrating the late image-maker’s own brand of resistance through photography. “In a moment when there is an intense and active effort of erasure, retreat from civil rights and silencing of Black voices and history in the US,” Stevenson notes, “[Parks’s images] provide insight and relevance to our current discourse”. […]