Click here to return to the Photographer Scam / Ministry Warning web site regarding convicted criminal and fugitive Ken Max Parks of Johns Creek / Duluth, GA. Max is an alias Parks adopted around 2006. Parks runs a fraudulent "ministry" and "charity," that he calls ETC Ministries, last known to be operated from his residence in Johns Creek / Duluth, as well as unlicensed businesses AtlantaMAXPhoto, Fotos by Ken and Ansisoft. Parks' licensed home-based businesses Weddings Thru The Lens LLC / Photoworkshops TTL, LLC were only licensed in June, 2011 after Parks was ordered to do so by court order from the Johns Creek Municipal Court. Since 2000, Parks has been consumed with stalking, harassing, and threatening numerous people, including those in his own family, via web sites, chatrooms, e-mail and regular mail. Parks falsely claims he has won all of his pro se (without an attorney) lawsuits against his victims, when in fact documentation shows he has actually lost his lawsuits.
Below are the many fraudulent claims Ken Max Parks makes about himself on his web sites and blogs (oftentimes written by Parks in third person, as if someone else is writing about him):
1. "Ken 'Max' Parks is an international photographer and writer." Source: atlantamaxphoto.blogspot.com
REALITY: Parks only took the alias "Max" around 2006. Parks' real name is Kenneth Floyd Parks. Parks' only "international" photos are of himself and his apparent accomplice in cyber stalking, Bernardino "Dino" de Vincenzi when Parks visited him in Italy in 2004. Parks met Vincenzi on a chat room. The only writing Parks is known for are his literally hundreds of pages of libelous attacks against family, friends, and anyone and everyone else he thinks have "victimized" him and/or over whom he thinks he is superior. A number of photographs on Parks' fraudulent business sites vary greatly in the style of photographs he is known to have taken, which creates reasonable suspicion that Parks has stolen photographs found on the Internet and claimed them as his own. Parks has long claimed to be a "professional photographer" and claimed to have extensive experience, but family and former friends know for a fact that these claims are simply not true.
2. "As a young teenager, I saved enough money to purchase my
first 35mm camera, a Voigtlander Bessamatic. My Dad, a retired Navy photographer
encouraged me along this path. As my mentor, he taught me the history of
photography, the camera, the lens, composition, style, and lighting. At first, I
concentrated in black & white photography in order to learn the basics and then
graduate to color film. As an ardent student, I experimented with increasing the
ISO of film, darkroom procedures, and other techniques to enhance my creativity.
As his protege, I helped my Dad in wedding assignments, was
his backup photographer, retouched negatives and prints, checked light exposure
during setting shots, and other things related to the assignments."
Source: atlantamaxphoto.com
REALITY: Parks knows full well that his father was NOT a "retired Navy photographer" but was a chief radioman when he retired from the U.S. Navy in early 1960 (when Parks was not yet 6 years old). Parks' father was merely a hobbyist photographer. Family members know for a fact, and Parks also knows for a fact, that Parks' father only did a few friend-of-a-friend weddings, and Parks did NOT accompany his father on some of those "assignments." When Parks did accompany his father it was mostly to simply help carry his camera equipment. The last wedding for friends that Parks' father did was in the late 1960s, since Parks' father had heart problems and was then diagnosed with cancer, from which he died in June, 1972, when Parks was 18 years old.
3. "My name is Ken 'Max' Parks, Sr. Photographer at Weddings Thru The Lens." Source: www.marketingtool.com
REALITY: By calling himself a "Sr. Photographer" Parks implies that he has assistant photographers working under him. Who are these supposed assistants? His wife? Is he going to start claiming that his wife is now also a "professional photographer"?
There is an active arrest warrant issued against Kenneth F. Parks in Connecticut for harassing his sister, one of his many victims whom he's been cyberstalking since 2000. Parks has convictions for violence against women. Consumers need to be aware of fraudulent and dangerous con artists on the Internet, such as Ken Max Parks.