Dijkstra, Rineke (b. 1959), Dutch photographer who began as a commercial portraitist. Influenced primarily by Diane Arbus, she developed a style of large, minimalist, almost classically formal frontal portraits, particularly used from 1992 in a series of beach portraits of teenagers. This established her reputation and led to further projects on children and young adults at points of life change or traumatic experience, capturing anxiety, vulnerability, and self-consciousness. In 1994 she photographed Portuguese matadors emerging from bullfights, and young women just after giving birth. She exhibited at the 1997 Venice Biennale.
— Robert Ashby
Bibliography
- Rineke Dijkstra, Portraits (2001)
