Photographer Burk Uzzle's evocative exhibit of images of the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination opens in Durham this week. After an initial run in Wilson, the show comes to the American Tobacco Campus on Saturday and will remain there through April 30.
Uzzle, who is from Raleigh and moved to Wilson a couple of years ago, spent most of his adult life in New York working as a photographer for Life magazine and other publications. He snapped an iconic shot of a young couple wrapped in blankets at Woodstock.
One of Uzzle's King images became a Newsweek cover photo - that of a woman reaching into the open casket to touch King's face. But most of the images from the 40 rolls of film he shot have never been seen in public. Uzzle culled them for this exhibit, hoping to share the emotions of the time.
