SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITS
New Orleans Museum of Art, “In Light of Everything,” October 6, 2023-May 4,2024
Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico, “Portraits of Birds,” June 9, 2023-July 29,2023
Gitterman Gallery, New York, May 21-June 2009, and Dec. 14, 2006- Feb. 2007
Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, Southern Work, April 11-May 23, 2015
Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris, France “Fantasmas” Feb. 5-March 13, 2010 and Sept 13-Oct 28, 2000
Box Gallerie, Brussels, Belgium, Winter 2009
Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, June 2009, January 2005, December 2004, January 2003, December 2002
Nation Institute New York, Sept. 28, 2006-May 10, 2007
Focus Gallery, London England, March 17-April 24, 2004
Ricco Maresca Gallery New York Jan 8-Feb 9, 2002
The Marion Center for Photographic Arts Santa Fe Mar 23-May 1, 2000
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, Calif. Nov.7-Jan.04
Chateau de Cadillac, Cadillac, France Sept. 21-Oct. 19, 2003
Revolution Gallery , April 27 - June 8, 1996
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California September, 10-October 1992
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans 2009, 1994 1998, 1991,1989,1981
Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2009, 2005, 2002, 2000
Jackson fine Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-May 11, 1992,, Dec. 5, 1997- Jan.17, 1998
Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio Summer 1996
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, Jan- Feb 1994
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois/April 3-May 29, 1993
Photo Gallery International , Tokyo, Japan/November 1-30, 1992
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 10-Oct. 1992
Bentler Morgan Gallery Houston, Texas Sept 11-October 31, 1992
Quatrieme Triennale Internatonal De La Photographie, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium / April-June 1990
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, October 17-Dec 31, 1990
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California/March 7-April 30,1989
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina/November 1981
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, La. / Oct.4-30, 1980 or 1981
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION, Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 10-September 6, 2025
“From Alpha to Creation:Religion in the Deep South,” North Carolina Museum of Art, Potter Gallery,Winston Salem, North Carolina Feb. 5-May 26,2024
A Long Arch-Photography and the American South, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept.15,2023-Jan.14,2024
“Revelations:Recents Photography Acquisition,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, March 14 to Sept. 2, 2020
Foley Earthly Figures (Part 11), Feb. 12-March 15, 2020
“The Stories They Tell:A Hundred Years of Photography,” Museum of Photographic Arts,San Diego, California, Oct. 19-Feb.18, 2020
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Michael Botman, Gitterman Gallery, New York, April 6-June 3, 2017
“A Place and Time, Part 11, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Feb.2-May28, 2017
Something In The Way:A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction,” Sept. 9, 2016-Feb. 19, 2017
Wave The Flag”, Rubenstein Photography Gallery,Duke University,
Durham North Carolina, Oct. 29, 2016-Feb. 26, 2017
“Alphabet,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 20, 2015-Nov.28, 2015
“After The Storm,” LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, La. June 5,-August 30, 2015
“Black Forest: A Book and An Exhibit,” Nov.7-Dec. 20, 2015
Gitterman Gallery, Summer Exhibition, July 9-August, 2015
“Hand,” Camera Obscura, Paris France Jan. 29-March 14,2015
“Exposition Collective,” Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
Jan. 30-March 8, 2014
“I, You, Me,” Whitney Museum of Art, New York, April 25-Sept 1, 2013
“The Story in Pictures: Social Documents from the Permanent Collection,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, May 31-Aug.25, 2013
“Inside Out,” Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, July 12-Sept. 1, 2012
Facing Change Documenting America, Leica Sponsored, FotoKina, Cologne, Germany, Sept. 18,2012
“Occupy This!” Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum
Washington DC, Sept.1-Oct. 21, 2012
“Pictures By Women: A History of Modern Photography,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 7,1020-April 5, 2011
Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library, September 29, 2010-January 2, 2011, March 14- April 15, 2011
“Oil Spill: Information Gulf,” Santa Fe Art Institue, Santa Fe, Mar 15-Spill 17,2011
“Outlands: Land Over Time,” Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Sept 10-Oct 8, 2011
“Residents and Visitors: Twentieth-Century Photographs of La., New Orleans Museum of Art, Sept 2010-Feb 2011
Man Made,Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Foundation, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe October 9,2009-January 3, 2010
“Moving Walls 14,” Group Exhibition OpenSociety Institute, Washington DC Nov-2008-Oct 2009
“Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Oct 2008-Jan 2009
“Masterworks of American Photography,” Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX June-Nov 2008
“Degrees of Separation,” Peer Gallery, New York, July 12- Sept 8, 2007
”Procurar Portugal,” 1990-1996, cColeccao Dos Entros de Fotografia, July 14-Sep 30, 2007 Portugal
““Jerry Buchard, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Linda Foard Roberts,” July 2-August 22, 2009, “Aftermath: Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry
Schwarm,” Nov 29, 2007- Jan 2008 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Stories: History, Myth and Narrative,” July 8-Aug 11, 2006 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
“Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Sept. 16-Dec.10, 2006 Frederick Weisman
“Collection Selection,” Marion Center for Photographic Arts, July-October, 2006, Santa Fe NM
"Some Southern Stories," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. January 23-March 20, 1999
Toro! The Bull in Human History, Art and Sports April 15-Sept 2005,
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
“Common Ground,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, October 23, 2004-January 31,2005
“Children in Modern Photography,” Frost Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 24, 04-Jan.2,05
“Preferences “ Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris France, Jan.27-March 6 2004
“Visages/Portraits,” Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, October 28,2003 – Jan. 25,2004
“Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude,” Robert Mann Gallery, New York-March 7-April 9, 2003
“Southern Images,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery September 5-October 11, 2003
“Concealed Identity” Robert Koch Gallery, July 3-16,2003
“Seeing” Selections from Collection Dancing Bear, The Marguerite &
James Hutchins Gallery, Center of Visual Arts, Lawrenceville, N.J. April 25-June 7,2003
“Reverse,” Santa Fe Art Institute, July 12-25 2003
“The Female Aim,” G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, Jan.2-
Feb. 28,2003
"What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography," Whitney Museum of American Art/May 18 - September 22, 2002, Feb.26-May21, 2000, May 18-September 22, 2002
"Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passion," Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego,CA. March 24-June 2, 2002
"Indivisible: Stories of American Community," Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL/October 5-November, 2000
"Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999," The Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN/October 7- November, 2000
"Summer Reading," Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID/August 1-30, 2000
"Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century," Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA/June-August, 1999
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill. / “Some Southern Stories”, Jan. 23-March 20, 1999
"Evicted Sentiments" - Southern Documentary Photography, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina/January 17-March 29,1998
Aperture’s Fortieth Anniversary Exhibit, New York / Sept. 1993
Museum of Modem Art New York - Recent Acquisition Exhibition/May 7-June 3 0, 1987; "More Than One Photograph:" Work since 1980 From the Collection/May 14- Aug. 9, 1992
Southern Images, Kathleen Ewing Gallery Washington DC Sept 5-Oct 11, 2003
Center of Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona / “Photographic Essays from the South,” June-august, l992
Grand Palais, Paris, France: "Decouvertes / March1991
Centros Estudos Photographia, Coimbra,Portugal / ”Coracao Da Ciencia” March 2- Many 1991
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif. / New Acquisitons/New Work/New Directions,” Jan. 1991
Rencontres Internationales De La Photograhies, Arles, France, “THE DEEP SOUTH” / JULY 3 –SEPT, 3, 1989
COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian, American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Nation Institute, New York
Harvard University, Carpenter Center for Visual Studies, Cambridge, Mass.
St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Elton John Collection
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Ogden Museum, New Orleans, La.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Arts Council of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
New Orleans Aquarium, New Orleans, La.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
City of Paris, "Fond Nationale D'Art Contemporain," Paris, France
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La.
New York Public Library, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif.
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Museum Fur Kunst und Bewerbe , Hamburg, Germany
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Lykes Steamship, New Orleans, Louisiana
Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
Prudential Life Insurance, New York
GRANTS AND AWARDS
High Museum Commission, “Picturing The South” 2017
Guggenheim Fellowship 2005
“Katrina Media Fellowship,” Open Society Institute, George Soros Foundation 2006
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Calif., “Lou Stouman Mid Career Grant,” 1996
Michael P Smith Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 2011
Governors Art Award, Louisiana / “Professional Artist of the Year” 1990
Southern Arts Federation, Regional Visual Arts Photography Fellowship 1987
Louisiana State Arts Council and Division of the Arts, Artist Fellowship 1984
Louisiana Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, Acadiana Arts Council, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1988
PUBLISHED WORK
“In Light of Everything,” Radius Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Alphabet” Fall Line Press, Atlanta, Georgia
Collection L'Oiseau Rare" Debbie Fleming Caffery, Filigranes Publishing, France
“Polly” Photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery, Twin Palms Press “Carry Me Home,” Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C.
"The Shadows" Photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery, Twin Palms Press, Santa Fe
The Spirit and the Flesh, Radius Books, Santa Fe New Mexico
IMAGES PUBLISHED IN BOOKS, MAGAZINES, AND NEWSPAPERS
Wall Street Journal
“Reveal,” Yoffy Press
Femmes Photographes, Les Voies de la Reconaissance, Introduction et biographies, de Claire Bouveresse, Poche.Actes Sud, France
Photography, A 21st Century Practice, Mark Chen and Chelsea Shannon, Focal Press Book
Louisiana Lens:Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection by John Lawerence
Reckonings and Reconstructions, Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund, Georgia university Press
“American Geography,’’ Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, Sandra S Phillips, with Sally Martin Katz, Radius Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico
A Long Arc-Photography and the American South, High Museum, Atlanta,Georgia
Black Forest, Candela Press
“Looking Again,” Photography at the New Orlean Museum of Art, Russell Lord, Aperature
Series of Dreams, Skelton Key Press
“EYEBOOK Sixty Artists, One Subject,” edited by Jenny Lynn
"In Their Mothers Eyes" Edition Stemmle, edited by Martina Mettner
Durham, N.C., Norton and Company
“Nightwood,” by Charles Frazier
“The Spirit of Family,” Al and Tipper Gore
“Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene,” James Enyeart
“Coimbra,”Ministerio of Culture, Camara Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal,Collection Encontro de Fotografia;commisson 1990
"A Thousand Hounds,”Taschen, Raymond Merritt and Miles Barth
“Portraits/Visages, 1853-2003”,Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris Sons la direction de Sylvie Aubenas et Anne Biroleau
“History of Women in Photography,” Naomi Rosenblum, New York
“Southern Photography: Between Myth and Reality,” Aperture Magazine
“Close to Home “- Friends of Photography
Washington Post Magazine, The Inauguration Issue of Barrack Obama, Enter History, Washington D.C.
Photoblatter, Frankfurt, Germany
Photographies Magazine, Paris, France
“Children in Photography”: 150 Years, Jane Corkin, Firefly
Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts
“INDIVISIBLE, Local Heroes Changing America”
Indivisible is a project of the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
A Long Arc, Photography and the American South, Since 1845, High Museum, Aperture
“Women Photographers”, Connie Sullivan, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher
“Les Photographies Dans Les Collection de la Maison de la Culture,” Amiens, France
“O'Coracao da Ciencia,” Centro de Estudos de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
“Ouatrieme Trienniale Internationale de la Photographie” Charleroi, Belgium
“Vale do Mondeao,” Coimbre, Portugal
“Photography’s Multiple Roll,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill.
Encontros De Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
“Aperture 40 Years,” New York, New York
"Ergens. Thuis," Groningen, Holland
"Delirium" Bill Hunt, Aperture, New York
"Defining Eve: Women Photographers of the 20th Century" St. Louis Art Museum
“Fine Art Photography” Graphics, New York
“Manifest Visions:An International Collection,”Black and
White Photography, James Luciana, Rockport Publishers
“Wooden Churches,A Celebration,” Algonquin Press
“The Site and the Sign,” Alfandega Nova, Museum dos Ransportes E Commnices Porto, Portugal
“Tendres Baisers,” Abbeville Press, New York
Local Héroes Changing America,”“L’Insense Photo-Femmes and Photographie,” Paris
Doubletake Magazine
Life Magazine
Elle Magazine
People Magazine
Time Magazine
U.S. News and World Report, Washington D.C.
Oxford American Magazine
PDN, New York
Die Weltwoche Magazine
Camera Arts
Georgia Review
TELEVISION
CNN
CBS
GUEST LECTURER
National Geographic Seminar, Washington DC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Nation Institute, New York
Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, Ca.
International Center of Photography, New York
Yale University, New Haven, Ct.
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, N.M.
Photo L.A., Los Angeles, Ca.
Calumet Institute, Chicago, Ill.
Columbia College, Chicago, Ill.
San Francisco Art Institute, Calif.
Marion Center of Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bard College
University of Central Arkansas
University of Minnesota
Contemporary Art Museum New Orleans
Center Of Photography, Woodstock, New York
Project Basho, Philadelphia
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.
Santa Fe Project Symposium, Santa Fe
New Orleans Museum of Art
Center of Creative Photography, Tucson
School of Photography, Arles, France
Lacoste Summer Program, Savannah School of Design, France
FREELANCE EDUCATOR
National Young Arts Foundation, Miami
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oka., Photography Workshop for 12/13 yrs olds
Visiting Artist and Instructor, Masters Apprentice Class, Black and White Documentary Photography, Spring 2000:
Artistic Director and Instructor, Photography Summer Institute for High School Students 2000, and Advanced Photography Class, Winter 2008 for the Marion Center for Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe, NM
Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, workshops in Louisiana and Mexico
Boureige Photography Retreat, Boureige, France , summer program
Lacoste Summer Program in Photography, Savannah School of Design,
Lacoste, France
Louisiana State University
Calumet Institute, Salisbury State, Maryland, Summer Program
Maine Photography Workshops
Santa Fe Photography Workshops
Project Basho, Philadelphia Advanced Photography
Fotofusion, Del Ray Beach, Fl.
Palm Spring Photo Festival, Palms Springs, Ca.
Filter Foto Festival, Columbia College, Chicago
FREELANCE
Editorial and Documentary Commissions
Portraits