SEASON 6  | EPISODE 3

Spider Martin was a commercial photographer in Birmingham, Alabama, who billed himself with a little tongue-in-cheek as the “world’s greatest photographer.” He worked for corporate clients and earned his fair share of awards for his work. But his real claim-to-fame was as a photographer for the Birmingham News when stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge documenting what the Alabama State Troopers did to John Lewis and the rest of the peaceful marchers in 1965. Her would be with marchers until they arrived at the Capital in Montgomery. This is Spider’s story.

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