This workshop invites photographers to explore a unique and challenging intersection, one that is fundamental to the nature of photography- images that document the world from a personal perspective. Using the language of the camera in black-and-white or color photography, students explore the relationships between photographer, individual subject and the world at large. The inherent mystery and intimacy of the photographic medium provides an ideal vehicle for participants to learn to speak about others' stories with an awareness of their own.
Debbie Fleming Caffery is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. She is highly regarded for her work in both fine art and documentary photography and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. She is a winner of the Lou Stoumen Award (1996), the Governor of Louisiana's Award for Excellence in the Arts and a Katrina Media Fellowship, George Soros Foundation, 2006. Debbie has chronicled the Louisiana sugar industry in her book entitled, Carry Me Home, published by the Smithsonian Press, 1990. Her photographs are included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Bibliotecque Nationale in Paris. A new book of her work of images of children has been published by Coedition Filigranes Editions, as part of a series they are publishing entitled L'Oiseau Rare. Twin Palms Press has published a monograph of her work, entitled The Shadows and her most recent book, entitled Polly.
