Spider Martin, Welcome to the Colored Section: Separate Not Equal, Selma, 1965, © Spider MartinIn commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the City of Birmingham, in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, presents “The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle.”

The exhibition focuses on the comparative civil rights photography of Spider Martin and Peter Magubane, and explores their respective images of American segregation and South African apartheid. Fifty photographs from each photographer are included in the exhibition.

“The Freedom Exhibition” will open to the public with a free reception from 6-8 p.m. Friday, June 5, at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, 1221 10th Ave. South. The exhibition is on view from June 5-Aug. 8. Admission to AEIVA is always free. AEIVA is open to the public 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 12-6 p.m. Saturday and is closed Sundays and holidays. Call 205-975-6436 or visit AEIVA online.