Tuesday, 13 July 2010
rineke dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra is a Amsterdam-based award-winning photographer who specialises in portraits of adolescents. She uses plain backgrounds and direct eye contact to draw your attention right to the person in the photograph. I love how she makes you wonder all about them: who they are and what story they might be telling. One of Rineke's projects was to photograph children of refugees like Almerisa, a Bosnian girl whose family relocated to Amsterdam in 1994. Almerisa, a collection of eight images taken over eleven years, shows Almerisa as a child and then as an adult with her own baby, and is presently on exhibition at MoMA as part of 'Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography'.
Photos: Rineke Dijkstra via Moma
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4 comments:
How interesting...I love those types of projects that show a progress....So fantastic:)
Kisses, my dear:)
You are right, the eye is drawn to the subject then you begin to look at their surroundings. Would be interesting to see the exhibition.
This is sooo interesting. Wish I could go!
If you can't make it to MoMA, click on the 'Almerisa' link and view all of the images online.
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