Deanna Dikeman

Deanna Dikeman (born 1954, Sioux City, Iowa, USA) 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 and a M.S. in Management. Deanna received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, the United States Artists Fellowship in 2008, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2023. She has two photobooks published by Chose Commune:…

Deanna Dikeman (born 1954, Sioux City, Iowa, USA) 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 and a M.S. in Management. Deanna received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, the United States Artists Fellowship in 2008, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2023. She has two photobooks 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.