What's Lost is Found

In May 2015, The Do Good Fund, a non-profit organization that acquires and exhibits photographs made in the American South, invited Lauren Henkin to be an artist-in-residence for a month in Hale County. As a photographer, Henkin was familiar with images of Hale County from the iconic photographs of Walker Evans, William Christenberry, and Gordon Parks among others. Some of these photographs can be found in the permanent collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art. The Museum became interested in Henkin’s photographs initially because they continued the tradition of photographing the South and particularly photographing Alabama. After spending a month in Hale County, Henkin produced a portfolio of over 50 photographs, 15 of which the Museum selected to form the exhibition What’s Lost is Found, opening on November 4, 2016.