Eva Marcille Instagram – It’s still Black History Month!!!! And today I celebrate John Shearer who captured iconic American moments, he was on staff from 1970-1972 and became the second African-American photographer at LIFE. “I fell in love with photography at 11… I was lucky that my father had a very good friend named Gordon Parks, who lived down the street.” With mentoring from Parks, John Shearer (1947-2019) began taking pictures professionally as a teen.