A passionate outdoorsman, Parker is interested in documenting ways in which people interact with and affect the natural world. He received his degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and currently works as the chief photographer at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA. His pictures have been published in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Virginian-Pilot, USA Today, and msnbc.com’s Week in Pictures gallery.