Rineke dijkstra self portrait
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By Shira Wolfe
“Chance plays an important role in a photo, because you can never fully control everything. I embrace that coincidence.”
Rineke Dijkstra
In October 2020, Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959) received the prestigious Dutch award for the arts, the Johannes Vermeer Prize 2020. Dijkstra studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in the 1980s, and began shooting portraits in the late ‘80s, starting out with portrait commissions for newspapers and magazines.
She broke through in the 1990s with her Beach Portraits series, in which she captured incredibly moving, revealing photographs of children, pre-teens and teenagers on the beach. Dijkstra’s photographs and video works offer a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. She possesses that particular skill, talent and distinctive style
Self portrait us.