Publisher/Radius Books

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The Spirit & The Flesh is a collection of works by Debbie Fleming Caffery, a female photographer from Louisiana in the southern United States. Caffery has been consistently taking black-and-white documentary photographs for over 30 years, working closely with people living on the fringes of society. She is highly regarded for her style of using unique contrast and shadow to bring out the presence of her subjects and simultaneously highlight human dignity and fragility. This book is a collection of works taken in villages in northeastern Mexico from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Scenes of churches, which symbolize devout faith, cantinas (bars) in back alleys, and places that sometimes function as brothels intertwine to create a complex human drama in which prayer and desire, purity and worldliness are mixed. Caffery's lens approaches people's lives from a position free of social judgment and distance, carefully scooping up the silence, kindness, and sadness that are there. This work, which combines religious piety with a vivid depiction of the body, is a book that leaves a deep impression and raises questions about human existence itself.