Katrina Media Fellowships

Photographer

To document the journey of displaced residents transferred from the Convention Center and Superdome to the Baton Rouge River Shelter, the destruction and neglect of the Ninth Ward, and personal items left behind in now abandoned houses and churches.

Caffery has been making photographs of the people and culture of her native Louisiana for over 30 years. Past projects include images of immigrant sugarcane field workers, alligator hunts, and family portraits in Louisiana, as well as photographs of rural culture in Mexico and Portugal. Caffery’s work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography. She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005), the first Lou Stoumen Mid Career Grant (1996), and the Louisiana Governor’s Art Award (1990). Her work is included in the permanent collections of many museums including the Smithsonian Institution, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Caffery has published several highly praised books, including Polly and Carry Me Home.

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