Remembering John Gaps III

Kenneth Jarecke
10 min readNov 23, 2022

Gone too soon.

John in 1985 at a Kansas City Royals game (I believe). Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

John Gaps III passed away on October 17th of this year. He was 63 years old.

John was a photojournalist, a good one to be sure, who was known for taking chances and being outspoken.

If your goal is to make good pictures of people acting naturally and ignoring the camera, there are two ways to get there. You can try to be a fly on the wall and hope to go…

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Kenneth Jarecke

I'm a husband, dad, photographer, a writer (sort of), an occasional rancher and the Founder of The Curious Society. https://www.curious-society.org