Deanna Dikeman

Deanna Dikeman (1954, USA) earned a Bachelor in Biology in 1976 and a Master in Management in 1979, both from Purdue University (USA). She has photographed her Midwestern family and surroundings since 1985, when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. She received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, and the United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. “A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell” was one of the top 25 stories of 2020 in The New Yorker. She has two photobooks published by Chose Commune: Leaving and Waving (2021) and Relative Moments (2024). The series Leaving and Waving received the 2021 Prix Nadar awarded by the Association Gens d’Images in France. The book was also a finalist for the 2021 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award. Her photographs from the series Leaving and Waving have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries in fourteen countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States.