MOBILE, AL.- The Mobile Museum of Art will open the exhibit William Christenberry: Photographs 1961-2005 on January 12 and will run through March 25. Artist William Christenberry now lives in Washington, D.C. but he grew up in Hale County, Alabama. Since 1961, he has returned there each summer, revisiting the same places in forgotten corners of the region. Through his photos, paintings and sculptures, he documents how the places of his youth have changed – and chronicles the passage of time. This exhibit includes 50 photographs and one sculpture.

For more than thirty years, William Christenberry has been making pictures in and around Hale County, Alabama, documenting rural southern landscapes and the worn, remote margins of small-town life. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Phillips Collection; the Smithsonian's American Art Museum; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Library of Congress. He is represented by Hemphill Fine Arts, in Washington, D.C.; the Morgan Gallery, in Kansas City, Missouri; and the Pace-MacGill Gallery, in New York City.