Jerry Siegel
Jerry Siegel (b. 1958) is a documentary photographer whose work engages with the scenes and people around Alabama’s Black Belt and his hometown of Selma. He began his career as a commercial photographer, but, in 2004, began to focus his attention on his more personal photographs of the unique cultural landscape of the South, and intimate portraits of the people who live there. Siegel has published two monographs Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists and Black Belt Color. Siegel’s work is held in a number of public collections including, but not limited to, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta); the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans); the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; the Mint Museum (Charlotte); the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA); and the Morris Museum (Augusta, GA).