In 1991 American photographer, Deanna Dikeman started photographing her parents every time she visited them. Over 27 years she visited 93 times. Every parting was recorded and in 2021 a book, Leaving and Waving, was published containing 66 of these images. Since then the work has been exhibited in several European countries and the book is now sold out of its 3rd printing.

Flow Photographic Gallery is very proud to present the UK debut of Dikeman’s extraordinary sequence of photographs.

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ABOUT

DEANNA DIKEMAN

Deanna Dikeman was born in 1954 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She has photographed her midwestern family and surroundings since 1985, when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. She graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Biology with Honors and Distinction, and an M.S. in Management. She received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, the United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography in 2023.

Deanna’s largest and longest photography project documented her parents and other family in her home town. That work included 27 years of photographs of her parents waving goodbye to her as she left from visiting them. “A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell” was one of the top 25 stories of 2020 in The New Yorker. She has two books published by Chose Commune: Leaving and Waving in 2021 and Relative Moments in 2024.  Leaving and Waving was a finalist for the 2021 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award and won the 2021 Prix Nadar awarded by the Association Gens d’Images in France. Photographs from Leaving and Waving have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries in 12 countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.

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