Black Belt Color

Photographer Jerry Siegel was born and raised in Selma, Alabama, & graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. His first monograph, “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists,” was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2011. This body of work has been featured in solo exhibitions at six museums in Alabama, Georgia & Louisiana. His photographs are in many private and corporate collections, including those of the Ogden Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art & eleven other southeastern US museums. Jerry Siegel's new monograph "Black Belt Color," was published by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. This book features images from decades of Siegel documenting his hometown of Selma, Alabama, and the surrounding area.