Gabriela, 1999. By Debbie Fleming Caffery from her exhibit “Brothels of Mexico.”

By Paul Goldfinger, photography editor @Blogfinger

Debbie Fleming Caffery (1948-) is a documentary/fine art photographer from Louisiana who only shoots in black and white. “I see in black and white,” she says.  She can’t be pigeon holed because she is drawn to all sorts of subjects. Debbie says, “I want to document life around me.” The small towns of the Mississippi delta constantly intrigue her.  She finds a scene that draws her in, she studies it, becomes “infatuated” by it, and then finally she starts photographing.

Among her most famous works include her photo essays of the Katrina devastation, southern sugar mills and cane harvesting at dawn and dusk, and the Mexican brothels which inspired the image above.

The photograph “Gabriela” is from her 2009 book The Spirit and the Flesh  and from the exhibit that year at the Gitterman Gallery in NYC.  Here is a link:   Gitterman Gallery

Debbie Fleming Caffery is a wife and mom to 3 children,  but even now, at 66 years old, she says that she cannot imagine life without photography.

JOHN BARRY  wrote Somewhere in Time for the 1979 movie of the same name: