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Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award.

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I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

Attitude, Concentrating, Identity, Power, Trying, Vulnerability

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

Reality, Photographer, Moments, Certain, Enlarge

For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no one can completely understand someone else. I know very well what Diane Arbus means when she says that one cannot crawl into someone else's skin, but there is always an urge to do so anyway. I want to awaken definite sympathies for the person I have photographed.

Loneliness, Mean, Skins, Urge, Skin, Sense

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

People, Important, Needs, Recognize, Photograph

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

Beach, Self, Portraits, Pose, Moment

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

Kind, Lie, Lying, Matter, Present

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

Aging, Emotion, Emotions, Know, People, Surface

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

Ordinary, People, Photography, Point, See, Specialness

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Thinking, Degrees, Violence, Work, Concentration

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