Alphabet is a unique conceptual project by Debbie Fleming Caffery that reimagines the childhood experience of learning the ABCs through the lens of her dark and atmospheric documentary photography. Drawn from her vast archive of work in the American South, Mexico, and beyond, the book features 26 black-and-white photographs—one for each letter of the alphabet. Eschewing the bright, simplistic imagery of typical primers, Caffery offers a more mysterious and psychological interpretation of the world, where an “A” or a “Z” might be represented by a shadowy figure, a weathered texture, or a fleeting moment of rural life. The book includes an afterword by Brett Abbott that explores the relationship between linguistic structure and visual memory.