Deanna Dikeman has photographed her midwestern family and surroundings since 1985, when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. Her book Leaving and Waving was published by Chose Commune in 2021, after being short-listed for the MACK 2020 First Book Award. The book received the 2021 Prix Nadar awarded by the Association Gens d’Images in France. The book also was a finalist for the 2021 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award, and is now in its third printing. Photographs from Leaving and Waving have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries in eleven countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

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