Gordon Parks: The South in Color

Gordon Parks: The South in Color presents 42 photographs by Gordon Parks from his Segregation Story series, alongside a new portfolio published by The Gordon Parks Foundation. Working in photography, Parks documented the segregated South in 1956 with images that reveal both the violence of Jim Crow and the dignity, resilience, and everyday lives of Black communities. Jackson Fine Art, 3122 East Shadowlawn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30305. April 2, 2026 — Runs through June 13, 2026. Organized in partnership with The Gordon Parks Foundation, the exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Parks’s images of the segregated South in Life magazine and the 20th anniversary of the foundation. It brings together photographs not previously shown at the gallery with some of Parks’s best-known images, offering a renewed look at a body of work that remains central to the visual history of race in America. Curated by Dawoud Bey, the exhibition is presented in connection with the foundation’s yearlong celebration of Parks and his influence on later generations of Black artists and writers. By foregrounding Parks’s use of color photography, The South in Color underscores the visual poetry and human complexity of scenes made in and around Mobile, Alabama, expanding how viewers understand the artist’s engagement with segregation, witness, and representation.