#199 LEAVING AND WAVING, PHOTOGRAPHIC GOLD
Leaving and Waving; 27 years of photographs by photographer and artist Deanna Dikeman, pictures of her parents as they waved goodbye after Deanna's visits to their home in Sioux City. The work is now a book and has received much press attention as it launches this month. It’s inspired many who have seen early versions of this greater study of her parents in progress, proving that the simplest of ideas can make the most powerful stories.
It is International Women’s Day today and in the foreword photowalk to today’s episode we talk of the work of Dorothea Lange and the Migrant Mother portrait in particular.
Patron of the day today is Helen Fennell and I’ve picked one project in particular from Helen’s work; Repetition. During the various lockdowns, Helen has been making photowalks and stopping to make closer studies of lone isolated flowers. Close up, simple, monochrome flora, with the background pretty much faded to black. She talks of one moment making the study; “I was down on my hands and knees trying to get the composition I wanted, being tutted at by a couple with matching cagoules. Clearly not lovers of the photographic art.” There seems to be somewhat of a theme today; that the simplest of images can make potent compositions.
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Photographs copyright Deanna Dikeman. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.
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