Deanna Doll - Harvested Ornamental Corn

Media: Color Photography
Bio: Deanna Doll is a previous Student Purchase Award winner. The committee selected another color photograph of hers, entitled “Advertising Clutter,” from an exhibit at Westwood during the fall semester of 2005. The new photographs, “Harvested Pumpkin” and “Harvested Ornamental Corn,” are from a large social documentary photography project Doll recently completed for a documentary photography course. These photographs and others from the collection have appeared in a local newspaper in Doll’s hometown, Sunman, Indiana. The photographs were taken on a pumpkin farm in Sunman that is owned by Doll’s aunt and uncle. Besides pumpkins and corn, photographs from this projected included images of Doll’s family working in the field. Doll also works in documentary photography as a photographer for the Debris yearbook. She has further immersed herself in Purdue culture as Career Opportunities Director for Liberal Arts Student Council and as a tour guide for Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. Doll is majoring in Communication with an Advertising concentration and Photography. Her minors are English and Art History. After graduation in December 2006, Doll plans to move back to Sunman where she will work in advertising.