PhotoMidwest Festival 2024 and FlakPhoto Projects present photographer Deanna Dikemann who will discuss her photobook Relative Moments on Saturday, September 28, 2024, 1:30pm to 3:00pm, in the first floor Performance Gallery. Following the lecture, Deanna will sign copies of her book. Free admission.
In Relative Moments (Chose Commune, April 2024), photographer Deanna Dikeman chronicles ordinary moments of her family’s activities. From gardening to cutting cake, from filling up the bird bath to mending a piece of clothing, from mowing the lawn to picking rhubarb, one can discover an everyday that might otherwise go unnoticed. In this book, which was generously edited and sequenced — 200 photographs in total — one is meant to see the moment shot in one photograph and all the moments that compose the story.
This project captures a visual history of the photographer's family’s life. Yet, an ongoing narrative is embedded in these photographs that convey larger, more universal truths about American culture, familiarity, and the endless source of everyday wonder that surrounds us.
