The American South:
Photographs by Jimmy Nicholson, Gordon Parks,
and Guggenheim Fellows
Curated by Jimmy Nicholson
On loan from The Do Good Fund (Columbus, GA)

September 26 – December 13, 2025
Sara May Love Gallery, Sarah K. Newberry Gallery

This one-of-a-kind exhibition features photographs that capture the richness and diversity of Southern history, culture, and identity, past and present. Jimmy Nicholson’s sensitive portraits of often-overlooked people and sites in Florida’s panhandle will be shown alongside varied work by distinguished Guggenheim Fellows, and 1960s civil rights photographs by legendary Life Magazine photographer Gordon Parks. Photographs will be on loan from the collection of the Do Good Fund (Columbus, Georgia). Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to recognize individuals who have demonstrated distinguished accomplishment in their field.
Image: Rosalind Fox Solomon, Mrs. Ova Heggi and her Mannequin, Chattanooga, TN, 2015, 25.5 x 21.5 x 1.5 inches