Jack Parsons is a photographer with over 20 years experience documenting the cultures and landscapes of the American Southwest. His book credits include True West (Clarkson Potter, Inc.), Native America (Clarkson Potter, Inc.), Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico (Rizzoli), Santa Fe Style (Rizzoli), as well as Straight from the Heart: Portraits of Traditional Hispanic Musicians, and Land and Cattle (both University of New Mexico Press). Additional books include Spanish New Mexico and The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest (both Museum of New Mexico Press), and Low ’n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico (Museum of New Mexico Press). Over the years, Parsons has built up a large library of stock photography with an emphasis on the American Southwest. Among his clients for stock and assignment photography are both national and international publications such as Elle, Forbes, German Geo, Actuel (France), Capital (Italy), The L.A. Times and The New York Times. Among his corporate clients are the Ford Foundation, Time-Warner, Warren Papers, and Phillip Morris, Inc. A Native of New York City, Parsons has B.A. and M.A. degrees in English literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was trained in England as a filmmaker at the London School of Film Technique. As a cinematographer, his credits include the nationally acclaimed “A Weave of Time,” about a family of Navajo weavers, and “The New Range Wars,” an Audubon special on grazing issues in the American West. He has also shot, and in some cases produced, over a dozen films on Southwestern history and culture.