PRESS RELEASE
In Remembrance of Katrina: Debbie Fleming Caffery
Aug 29 – Sep 7, 2025
An online exhibition
Today, August 29, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In remembrance of the disaster, I share with you a selection of images by Debbie Fleming Caffery, who spent over a year photographing the aftermath, along with an interview she gave to the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma in 2015.
Caffery grew up in southwest Louisiana where she has lived most of her life while photographing for over five decades. Early on in her career, she was inspired by the work of Dorothea Lange and many of the artists working within the FSA and Federal Arts Project of the WPA during the Depression. Like these forebears, she is interested in telling stories with her pictures. Her rich, and dramatic prints are the result of the deep interactions with the people and places she photographs, a visual corollary to the reverence she has for her subjects.
In writing this, I cannot help but also think about all the disasters our world has faced since then. Sadly, we are not all on the same page on how to address climate change. However, I hope this email is at least a reminder that our world is a better place when we have respect for one another.
—Tom Gitterman
LINK to the interview Debbie Fleming Caffery gave to the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma in 2015