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.
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things. - Rineke Dijkstra
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
- Rineke Dijkstra
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. - Rineke Dijkstra
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.
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 concentrat… - Rineke Dijkstra
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 concentrat…
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 parad… - Rineke Dijkstra
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 parad…
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second. - Rineke Dijkstra
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.
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 under… - Rineke Dijkstra
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 under…
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… - Rineke Dijkstra
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…
I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them. - Rineke Dijkstra
I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. - Rineke Dijkstra
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
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