Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer, born in 1959, that attended school at Rietveid Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 until 1996. Once out of school, Dijkstra started working as a freelance photographer. Her first exhibition was in 1984 and since then her work has been shown all over Europe and the United States.
Dijkstra tends to work in series, concentrating on individual portraits. She focuses on people in a transitional stage of their life, such as adolescents and pre-adolescents, new recruits into the military, and women after giving birth. When shooting images, she tends to use a minimalist, non-distracting background so that the viewer is forced to view the isolated subject with all of our attention. Dijkstra does not glamorize youth at all, she just shows them how they are. She does not try to show a pretend “awful reality” either.
Gallery
http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/rineke-dijkstra/
Review
http://prague.tv/articles/art-and-culture/rineke-dijkstra-review
Artist Website
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Since there is not an available artist webiste, however, the following website has a lot of images and information about Rinek Dijkstra.
http://oneartworld.com/artists/R/Rineke+Dijkstra.html
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