SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITS
Obscura Gallery, "Portraits of Birds" Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 9 - July 29 2023
Octavia Gallery, "Southern Work," New Orleans, April 11-May 23, 2015
Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France,"Fantasmas," Feb. 5-March 13, 2010 and September 13-October 28, 2000
Gitterman Gallery, New York, New York, May 21 - June 2009, and December 14, 2006-February 24, 2007
Box Gallerie, Brussels, Belgium Winter 2009
Nation Institute, New York, Sept. 28, 2006-May 10, 2007
Focus Gallery, London England, March 17-April 24, 2004
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, Calif. Nov.7-January 4
Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico December 6, 2002-January 2003, July – Sept. 2000, December 4, 2004, January 31, 2005
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York , January 8-February 9, 2002
Revolution Gallery, December 7, 2002- January 2003
The Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 23-May 1, 2000
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute, October 17-December 31, 1990
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, March 7-April 30,1989
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-May 29,1993
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, January - February 1994
Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA., April 4- May 1, 2009, February 3-March 10, 2003, June 4-July 23, 2005, January 24-February 14,1981; May-October 1984; March 4-April 1, 1989; March 2-April 1, 1991; November 5-26,1994; January 10-February 1998
Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-May 11, 1992; December 5,1997-January 17,1998
Cleveland Museum of Art
Revolution Detroit, Ill. April 27 - June 8, 1996
"Photos - Do Not Bend" - Dallas Texas
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November 1981
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, September 10-October 1992
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan, November 1-30, 1992
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
"A Summers’s Prayer," Ogden Museum, New Orleans June 11-Sept. 18, 2022
"Picturing the South: 25 Years," High Museum of Art , Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 4., 2021-Feb.6, 2022
"Revelations II: Recent Photography Acquisitions," OgdenMuseum, New Orleans, March 27-Sept. 5, 2021
"Women Represent," Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, July 3-July 30, 2021
"Our Good Earth: Rural Life and American Art," High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia, April 17-August 1, 2021
"Revelations: Recent Photography Acquisitions," Ogden Musuem of Southern Art , New Orleans, 2020
"Our Earthly Figures (Part 2)" Foley Gallery, New York, Feb. 12 – March 15, 2020
"The Stories they Tell: A Hundred Years of Photography," Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, Oct. 19 – Feb 18, 2020
"A Place and Time, Part 11," Ogden Musuem of Southern Art , New Orleans, Feb. 2-May 28, 2017
"Wave The Flag," Rubenstein Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Oct. 29, 2016-Feb. 26, 2017
"Something In The Way: A Brief History of photography and Obstruction," New Orelans Museum of Art, Sept. 9, 2016-Feb. 19, 2017
Alphabet Book Images, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct.20-Nov. 28, 2015
Summer Exhibition, Gitterman Gallery, New York, opening July 9, 2015
"Hand,"Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris, France Jan. 29-March 14, 2015
"After The Storm," LSU Museum of Art, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, La., June 5-August 30, 2015
"Black Forest: A book and an Exhibiton," Candela Books, Richmond, Virginia, November 7-December 20, 2014
"Photography at NOMA"New Oreans Museum of Art, Nov. 10, 2013-Jan. 19, 2014
"Exposition Collective," Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France, Jan. 30,March 8, 2014
"I, You, Me," Whitney Museum, 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 Outside," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, " July 12-Sept.1, 2012
PhotoKina Cologne, Germany, Facing Change Documenting America, Leica, Sept.18, 2012
Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum Washington DC , Occupy This! Sept.1-Oct. 21, 2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York "Pictures By Women: A History of Modern Photography," New York, May 7, 2010-April 2011 Oi
New York Public Library, "Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library," Sept. 20, 2010-January 2, 2011
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa, New Mexico, "Oil Spill:Information Gulf," March 14-April 15, 2011
New Orleans Museum, Residents and Visitors: Twentieth-Century Photographs of Louisiana, Sept. 2010-Feb., 2011
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, Geogia, "Outlands:Land Over Time," Sept.10-Oct 8,2011
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.,"Jerry Buchard, Debbie Fleming Caffery", July 2-August 22 2009
New Mexican Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico,"Man Made Notions of Landscape" from the Lannan Collection Oct. 9, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010
Open Society Institute, Washington, DC "Moving Walls 14" Group Exhibition, November 2008-October 2009
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., "Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography", October 2008- Jan. 2009
Arthur Roger Gallery, "Katrina:Catastrophe and Catharsis", Oct.2008-Jan. 17, 2009
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tx., "Masterworks of American Photography," June-November 2008
"Peer Gallery, New York,Degrees of Separation," July 12-Sept 8, 2007
Coleccao Dos Entros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal, "Procurar Portugal," 1990-1996, July 14-Sept 30, 2007
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA "Photos and Phantasy,”
– Selections from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Sept.16-Dec. 10, 2006
G Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington , "Katrina-Land,"Photographs of the Hurricanes Devastation, Sept.-Oct. 2006
Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas, Trace (Visions of Katrina) Sept-Oct. 2006
AXA Gallery, New York, March-May, 2006, "Two Centuries of Art in Louisiana From the Battle of New Orleans to Katrian."
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, "Common Ground," October 23, 2004-January 31,2005
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, "A Body of Work: From Degas to Diebenkorn," July 29-October 2, 2005
"Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, Toro! The Bull in Human History, Sports and Art," April 5-September 2005
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., "Children in Modern Photography," Sept. 24,04-Jan. 2, 2005
"Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris France,"Preferences, Jan.27-March 6 2004
"Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, "Visages/Portraits, October 28,2003 – Jan. 25,2004
"Robert Mann Gallery, New YorkFlesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude," March 7-April 9, 2003
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC, "Southern Images," September 5-October 11, 2003
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, Calif., "Concealed Identity," July 3-16,2003
The Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery, Center of Visual Arts, "Seeing,"Selections from Collection Dancing Bear, Lawrenceville, N.J. April 25-June 7,2003
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, “Reverse,” July 12-25 2003
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington ,“The Female Aim,” Jan.2-Feb.28,2003
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography," May 18 - September 22, 2002, Feb.26-May21, 2000, May 18-September 22, 2002
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, "Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passion," March 24-June 2, 2002
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL., "Indivisible: Stories of American Community," October 5-November, 2000
The Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN., October 7- November, 2000"Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999,"
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID.,"Summer Reading," August 1-30, 2000
SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "Evicted Sentiments" - Southern Documentary Photography, January 17-March 29,1998
Aperature, New York, "Fortieth Anniversary Exhibit," September 1993
Museum of Modem Art, New York, "More Than One Photograph" Work since 1980 From the Collection,"- Recent Acquisition Exhibition, May 7-June 3 0, 1987
"Recontres Intemationales De La Photographie, Arles, France, "The Deep South, - July 3 -September 3, 1989
Grand Palais, Paris, France , "Decouvertes," March 1991
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL., "Some Southern Stories," . January 23-March 20, 1999
Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, "Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century," Los Angeles, CA/June-August, 1999
COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Elton John Collection
Museum of Modem 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.
Harvard University, Carpenter Center for Visual Studies, Cambridge, Mass.
St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
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.
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
National Museum of American 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
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
Solari Foundation Photography Collection: 20th and 21st Century Works
Palm Springs Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Do Good Fund
PUBLISHED WORK
"The Spirit and The Flesh," Radius Books
"Black Forest", Candela Books
"Polly," Twin Palms Press December 2004
"The Shadows," Photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery, Twin Palms Press, 2002
"Collection L'Oiseau Rare," Debbie Fleming Caffery, Filigranes Publishing, France
“Carry Me Home,” Photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery, Smithsonian Press, text by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Pete Daniels
"Alphabet," Fall Line Press, Atlanta, Georgia
"RECKONINGS and RECONSTRUCTIONS Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund," Georgia University Press
"The Spirit of Family," Al and Tipper Gore
"The Inauguration Issue" Washington Post Magazine January 18, 2009
"In Their Mothers Eyes" Edition Stemmle, edited by Martina Mettner
The Unseen Eye: Aperature 196 Fall 2009
Photographs From The Unconscious by William M. Hunt Aperature Foundation
Local Heroes Changing America,”Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, N.C., Norton and Company
Reponses Photo, France
The Breath of Quest, Japan
First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, Selections of the Allan Chasnoff Collection, Yale University Press
The House of Dance and Feathers, A Museum By Ronald W. Lewis, New Orleans
Presumed Innocence, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,Lincoln, Mass.
Male, From the Collection of Vince Aletti, PPPEditions
“Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene,” James Enyeart
"A Thousand Hounds," Tusend Hunde Publisher, 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
“A Century of Vision: Louisiana Photography” - 1884-1984
Photoblatter, Frankfurt, Germany
Photographies Magazine, Paris, France
"Children in Photography:" 150 Years, Jane Corkin, Firefly Books
"Field and Foundry: A Working Contrast," Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts
"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
Tricycle..The Buddist Review
"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
"L’Insense Photo-New York Femmes and Photographie," Paris
New York Times Sunday Magazine
Doubletake Magazine
Life Magazine
Elle Magazine
U.S. News and World Report, Washington D.C.
Oxford American Magazine
Time Magazine
Georgia Review
Camera Arts
Popular Photography
Modern Painters
Spot-Houston Center of Photography
Art Press, Paris
People Magazine
Parade
Die Weltwoche Magazine
Seven Squared Magazine
PDN, New York
GRANTS AND AWARDS
"Picturing the South” Commission, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia, 2017
Michael P Smith Documentary Award, La. Endowment for the Humanities 2011
Katrina Media Fellowship, Open Society Institute, George Soros Foundation 2006
Guggenheim Fellowship 2005
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Calif. “Lou Stouman Mid Career Grant”, 1996
Governors Art Award, Louisiana “Professional Artist of the Year” 1990
Southern Arts Federation, Regional Visual Arts Photography Fellowship 1987
Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, Acadiana Arts Council, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1988
Louisiana State Arts Council and Division of the Arts, Artist Fellowship 1986
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GUEST LECTURER
National Geographic Seminar ,Washington DC
Nation Institute, New York
Savannah School of Design, Savannah, Georgia
Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, California
International Center of Photography, New York
Bard College
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Marion Center of Photography, Santa Fe
Calumet Institute, Chicago
Santa Fe Art Institute
Columbia College, Chicago, Ill.
Photo L.A., Los Angeles New York, Calif.
New Orleans Museum of Art
Center of Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Marion Center of Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe Project Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.
Center of Photography, Woodstock, New York
Contemporary Art Museum, New Orleans, La.
University of Minnesota
San Francisco Art Institute
University of Central Arkansas
University of Kentucky
Morris Museum, Augusta, Georgia
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Filter Photography Festival, Columbia College, Chicago, Ill.
FREELANCE
Editorial and Documentary Commissions
Portraits