“Who taught you how to love?” In 1974, Deborah Willis wrote Gordon Parks a letter saying she wanted to document Black photographers. gordonparksfoundation advice: believe in your work. Continue to tell the story. Heard debwillisphoto tell it herself last night at soharleminc, in conversation with adamadelphine. The people who shut her out as a young Black woman photographer didn’t win. She made sure of that.