11 Facts About Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS was born on 2 June 1959 and is a Dutch photographer.

Rineke Dijkstra was born June 2,1959, in Sittard, the Netherlands.

Rineke Dijkstra attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986.

Rineke Dijkstra then spent a few years working commercially, taking corporate portraits and images for annual reports.

Rineke Dijkstra's subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background.

Rineke Dijkstra uses flash along with a reduction of colour in this Almerisa series.

Rineke Dijkstra set up studios in the clubs and asked volunteers to dance one at a time in front of the camera, the contrast between the girls and boys, each assertive and vulnerable in equal proportion, being a subject of the video.

Rineke Dijkstra made another video in 1997, Annemiek, which showed a shy, Dutch teenager singing a Backstreet Boys song karaoke style.

For Ruth Drawing Picasso, Rineke Dijkstra simply trained the camera on an English schoolgirl as she sat on the floor, intently sketching a portrait of Dora Maar at Tate Liverpool.

In I See a Woman Crying, Rineke Dijkstra used Picasso's The Weeping Woman in the Tate Liverpool as the distraction device for a group of English schoolchildren, who were asked to describe what they saw in the painting which never appears on screen.

Rineke Dijkstra's photographs have appeared in numerous international exhibitions, including the 1997 and 2001 Venice Biennale, the 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Turin's Biennale Internationale di Fotografia in 1999, and the 2003 International Center for Photography's Triennial of Photography and Video in New York.