In celebration of The Do Good Fund's 10th anniversary, the Reckonings & Reconstructions exhibition presented selections from its sweeping photography collection to tease apart the tangled cultural memory of the American South. This show featured 125 photographs by 73 artists, ranging from Guggenheim Fellows to emerging artists. 

The exhibition included works by renowned photographers such as Debbie Fleming Caffery, William Christenberry, Gordon Parks, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shelby Lee Adams, Sheila Pree Bright, and Chandra McCormick. 

Themes of land, labor, law and protest, food, ritual, and kinship link images throughout the exhibition. Together these photographs present the enigmatic, ever-changing qualities of the South and its people - a place where despair and hope, terror and beauty, and indignity and dignity have coexisted and commingled. They picture a region that has sought restoration; they also capture communities bound together across centuries of toil and through bold acts of breathless exuberance.

Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from The Do Good Fund is 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.H. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation, and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art. 

The Reckonings and Reconstructions Tour

Read Jeffrey Richmond Moll’s essay on the Reckonings & Reconstructions exhibition for The Bitter Southerner, Looking Back, Seeing Forward