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Debbie Fleming Caffery | Books

from my book i checked out at the library "the shadows"

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this is her documentation on Katrina

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Debbie Fleming Caffery has long been recognized as one of the foremost photographers from the American South, but with major bodies of work from Mexico, France, and across the United States, her career has long transcended its Southern roots. In each of the places where she has worked, Caffery has spent significant periods of time living and learning with the people she photographs. Caffery's work emphasizes the deep emotional relationships between people and place, raises questions about social and economic structures, and explores a wide variety of human relationships and rituals.

In Caffery's own words, this exhibition is "about that moment, in taking a photograph, when everything works...eyes, guts, heart, life experiences, [and] years of paying attention." Through her characteristic combinations of rich shadows, dramatic lighting, and dizzying long exposures, Caffery's photographs function as meditations on different aspects of human experience-faith, the dignity of labor, childhood, and the natural world, framed in ways that are both familiar and mysterious.

Installed across three distinct spaces at NOMA, In Light of Everything begins in the museum's Great Hall, with a selection of the photographer's most recent work. Here, visitors encounter Caffery's large-scale portraits of birds in rehabilitation facilities in Louisiana, New Mexico, and France. Imbued with a gothic sensibility, these photographs reveal the birds to have great personality and demonstrate Caffery's ongoing significance as a contemporary artist. In the Templeman Galleries on the museum's second floor, visitors experience bodies of work that Caffery began in the 1970s and continued through the 2000s. These include pictures of sugar cane workers in and around Caffery's home parish that vary between intimate portraits and intense landscapes, photographs made in small-town Mexico where the cultures of the Church and the cantina overlap, community-making and home life in rural Mississippi, and her most focused series: portraits of Caffery's friend and muse Polly Joseph in her home. Finally, in the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Gallery, Caffery's photographs of churches and religious statuary in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita offer a reflection on hope and faith.

Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything is accompanied by a catalogue of the same title, published by Radius Books in October 2023.

Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and is supported by the Del and Ginger Hall Photography Fund, the Robert and Betty Fleming Family, James and Cherye Pierce, Milly and George Denegre, and the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Endowment.

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Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything - New Orleans Museum of Art

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Including nearly 100 dramatic black-and-white photographs installed in three distinct spaces of the museum, "In Light of Everything" is the first career retrospective for the important Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery.

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her talking about her process

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Picturing the South: Debbie Flemming Caffery

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Debbie Fleming Caffery: Out of the Shadows (2009) The Photographers Series

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Caffery has been making photographs of the people and culture of her native Louisiana for over 30 years. Past projects include documentation of sugarcane field and mill workers, alligator hunting, and family portraits in Louisiana, as well as photographs of rural Mexico and Portugal. She will soon publish a new book documenting prostitution in Mexico. Caffery's work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Gitterman Gallery, New York.

She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005), the first Lou Stoumen Prize (1996), and the Louisiana Governor's Art Award (1990). Her work is included in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Caffery has published several highly praised books, including Polly, The Shadows, and Carry Me Home.

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portrait of neglect: injustice of hurricane katrina

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Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster - Debbie Fleming Caffery

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Debbie Fleming Caffery has been making photographs of the people and culture of her native Louisiana for over 30 years.

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Debbie Fleming Caffery | Biography | Gitterman Gallery Web Site

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Laure Albin-Guillot, Khalik Allah, Roswell Angier, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arubs, Machiel Botman, Pierre Boucher, Josef Breitenbach, Alexey Brodovitch, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Harry Callahan, Roger Catherineau, Chargesheimer, Eugene Cuvelier, Frantisek Drtikol, Christiane Feser, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Allen Frame, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Richard Gordon, Ed Grazda, Stanley Greenberg, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Kenneth Heilbron, James Herbert, Lewis Hine, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, William Henry Jackson, Pierre Jahan, Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Chris Killip, Francois Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Fritz Kuhr, William Larson, Saul Leiter, Gita Lenz, Helen Levitt, Charles Lindsay, Eli Lotar, Joshua Lutz, Mary Ellen Mark, Michael Martone, Daniel Masclet, Herbert Matter, Roger Mayne, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Klea McKenna, Ray Metzker, Jean Moral, Jun Morinaga, Daido Moriyama, Eadweard Muybridge, Jean Painleve, Gordon Parks, Roger Parry, Irving Penn, Cranston Ritchie, William D. Richardson, Christopher Russell, Jaroslav Rossler, Aaron Rothman, Tomio Seike, Jose Maria Sert, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Bohumil Stastny, Edward Steichen, Eduard J. Steichen, Andre Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Karl Struss, Jean-Pierre Sudre, Josef Sudek, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Joseph Szabo, Maurice Tabard, Edmund Teske, Raoul Ubac, Umbo, Carleton E. Watkins, Dan Weiner, Lionel Wendt, Clarence H. White, Minor White, Emma Wilcox, Garry Winogrand, Yelena Yemchuk, Yoshio Yokoyama, Fred Zinnemann