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… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
