Born in 1971 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is a full member of Magnum Photos and has won four World Press Photo Awards, among others. In 2003, he received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His work is exhibited internationally and is in major institutional collections. Parke has published eight books prior to Monument (2023), including Dream/Life (1999), The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio, 2000), Minutes to Midnight (2005), and The Christmas Tree Bucket (2013). He lives in Adelaide, Australia.
