Southern Horror #161

Southern Horror #161 (Alabama, 23 of 35) by Kris Graves The Jefferson Davis Statue on the State Capitol Grounds in Montgomery, Alabama was erected in 1940 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 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 site we could find. Some have been removed, most remain in place.