Photography Report

           Choosing any one photographer is a hard task to do. There are so many of them to choose from. While looking at the long list of possible candidates I came across a photographer named Debbie Fleming  Caffery. With such an unusual name I was curious to see what her works included. 

From her book Polly.

Debbie was born in 1948. She graduated from San Francisco’s Fine Art Institute. She has been taking pictures for over thirty years and is an expert in photography and in fine art. Debbie has produced many books of her photography, Carry Me Home, & Polly is just two of the books she has written. Growing up in Louisiana many of her pictures take place there. When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Debbie took many pictures showing the effects had on the land and on the people. She created a body pictures titled “Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina" Debbie works are included in many permanent art museums including Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute.

            The reason why I like Mrs. Caffery’s work is because photos are an eye full. They include tough matters from things like: Racism, poverty, and storms. Playing the emotional card, Debbie’s photos are eye catching. I think some of her photos are written like poems, but some are like short stories. I like short stories a lot.  Another big reason I why I really enjoy Debbie’s photography is because her photos actually have meaning.

            One of my favorite features of photography is black and white. Black and white pictures seem to make thing much more dramatic and bring out the contrast. Like a good book, the more drama the better. A lot of the pictures that I take are in black and white.