DAVENPORT, IA.- An exhibition celebrating the ever-changing American South through the lenses of over 60 diverse photographers is now on view at the Figge Art Museum.

Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund surveys the Do Good Fund’s sweeping photography collection to tease apart the tangled cultural memory of the American South. The show features 102 photographs by 61 artists, diverse in gender, race, ethnicity, and geography. They range from emerging artists to Guggenheim Fellows and testify to the Fund’s support in recent years of young photographers and artists of color. The exhibition includes works by renowned photographers Debbie Fleming Caffery, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shelby Lee Adams, Sheila Pree Bright, William Christenberry, Chandra McCormick and Gordon Parks.

The exhibition explores life in the South, unfolding with themes of land, labor, law and protest, food, ritual and kinship. These themes reflect the South’s history where despair and hope, terror and beauty, pain and joy and indignity and dignity commingle. Together these images present the changing nature of the South and its people, highlighting efforts for renewal and the community’s shared experiences.

Providing a scholarly investigation of southern photography since World War II, the images serve as both a reckoning with the past and a vision for future restoration and repair. They confront history, take stock of it and emphasize the need for change.

“This exhibition offers a profound exploration of Southern culture and heritage, capturing the complexity and resilience of the region and its people,” said Senior Co-Curator Vanessa Sage. “These powerful images reflect on historical legacies and envision a future defined by healing and community.”

Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. The exhibition program is supported in part by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation, and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.