The Spirit and the Flesh | Photographs by Debbie Flemming Caffery
The Spirit and the Flesh | Photographs by Debbie Flemming Caffery
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The Spirit and the Flesh
Photographs by Debbie Flemming Caffery. Texts by Carrie Springer and Luis Alberto Urrea. Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, 2009. 12x11", 96 pages, 64 duotone illustrations.
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2014 Filter Photo Festival workshop instructor, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, has produced this stunning and sultry body of work from her time in a northeastern Mexican town.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery lived and worked on the grounds of the Catholic church in a small village in northeastern Mexico using a tortilla shack as her studio. In addition to the religious life of the town, she turned her lens on the nearby cantina that occasionally served as a brothel. The Spirit and the Flesh explores the themes of grace, redemption, sin and forgiveness that Caffery encountered in this community--of which she has said, "I felt incredibly comfortable in a culture rich in celebrations of religious feasts, with strong, independent, highly emotional people, much like the people I grew up with in southwest Louisiana. The brothel brought new elements into my work: secrets, sensual needs, desire and, often, unexpected love."
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