On Display:
May 2nd – June 14th, 2025
Opening Reception:
May 2nd, 5–9PM during First Fridays in Starland
VIP Preview: 5–6PM
Presented during First Fridays in Starland, with a Street Fair and IMPACT Magazine Vol. 4 No. 1 Release Party
EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH:
June 7th, 2025 at 2PM
With Alan Rothschild, founder of The Do Good Fund
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Tomorrow and Yesterday brings together over 30 photographs from The Do Good Fund — a public photography archive based in Columbus, GA — featuring a broad cross-section of Southern image makers working from the post-WWII era to the present.
These images document rural and urban landscapes, family life, friendship, work, protest, and play. Together, they reflect how Southern photographers have captured moments of change, connection, and continuity across generations. As the South continues to shift — culturally, environmentally, politically — the photographs in The Do Good Fund’s collection serve as vital documents of memory and place.
These renowned photographers have made images that feel at once familiar and transporting, lifting the veil between the everyday lives of Southerners and the unspoken undercurrents that shape those lives. Baldwin Lee holds up a mirror to Southern humanity and experience in velvety black and white, while Jill Frank lays bare the earnest, vulnerable, and exploratory expressions of adolescence in full color. The quiet power of Gordon Parks’ socially and artistically significant images resonates as strongly now as when they were produced, echoing the present through the not-so-distant past. As he famously said, “I saw that a camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” It is our hope that by making these works accessible to the Savannah community, we may play a small role in inspiring the next generation of Southern photographers.
Featured Artists
Carolyn Drake, William Ferris, Jill Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peyton Fulford, Andres Gonzalez, Emmet Gowin, Stacy Kranitz, Baldwin Lee, Gordon Parks, Sheila Pree Bright, Tamara Reynolds, Jeff Rich, RaMell Ross, Maude Schuyler Clay, Sage Sohier, Mike Smith, Mark Steinmetz, Susan Worsham, Brandon Thibodeaux
About The Do Good Fund
The Do Good Fund, Inc. is a Columbus, Georgia based public charity. Since its founding in 2012, the fund has focused on building a museum-quality collection of photographs taken in the American South since World War II. The collection ranges from works by more than twenty Guggenheim Fellows to images by lesser known and emerging photographers working in the region.
Do Good’s mission is to make its collection of more than 800 images broadly accessible through regional museums, nonprofit galleries, and nontraditional venues and to encourage complementary, community-based programming to accompany each exhibition.
