Southern Horror #100 (Georgia, 5 of 43) by Kris Graves
The Robert E. Lee equestrian statue, JF Gregory City Park, Richmond Hills, Georgia.
Gifted to the city approximately 20 years ago, however the year and sponsors of its construction are unknown. Following the 2020 George Floyd protests, a petition was made to call for the statues’ removal, however because the monument is privately owned, the city cannot remove it under state law.
While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making photographs of every...