Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Caffery, Debbie Fleming |
Notes |
Debbie Fleming Caffery was born in New Iberia, Louisiana in 1948. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BA in Fine Art and returned to Louisiana to photograph deep emotional relationships between the people living there. She is the author of four books: Carry Me Home, The Shadows, Polly, and The Spirit and The Flesh, all using shadows and black and white to evoke emotion and express her connection with the land and people. Caffery has also traveled to rural Portugal and Mexico to capture everyday life in small communities there, as well as documenting the alligator hunting industry and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Caffery's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; New Orleans Museum of Art; George Eastman House in Rochester; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France. |
Nationality |
American |
Occupation |
Photographer Louisiana, Portugal, Mexico |
