A new show of photographs made in and about the South curated by students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham will open at the Birmingham Museum of Art on Thursday, April 2, for the BMA’s First Thursday event.

Throughout the semester, students from the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History course “Special Topics: Photography in the South” have studied photographs and literature of the Southeast. The curriculum led students from the classroom to the field and from the library to the BMA’s permanent collection, in search of an understanding of the South and the complex ways in which it has been pictorially represented through fine art and documentary photographic practices.