Rineke Dijkstra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rineke Dijkstra
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Jun 2, 1959(1959-06-02)
Age	65
Birthplace	Netherlands
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Gemini

Rineke Dijkstra Biography

Rineke Dijkstra is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on June 2, 1959 in Netherlands, Netherlands. Dutch photographer who became primarily known for her minimalist portrait series.

The Anne Frank Foundation commissioned Dijkstra to do a portrait series of school girls for their building in Amsterdam.

Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award.

Dijkstra attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986. She then spent a few years working commercially, taking corporate portraits and images for annual reports.

She was born and raised in the Netherlands.

Rineke Dijkstra Net Worth

Rineke Dijkstra is one of the richest Photographer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rineke Dijkstra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She had her formal education at Rietveld Academie and went on to do some commercial photography.

She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London in 2011.

Dijkstra was born on June 2, 1959 in Sittard, Netherlands. Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers, from the Beach Portraits of 1992 and on, to the video installation Buzzclub/Mysteryworld (1996–1997), Tiergarten Series (1998–2000), Israeli soldiers (1999–2000), and the single- subject portraits in serial transition: Almerisa (1994–2005), Shany (2001–2003), Olivier (2000–2003), and Park Portraits (2005–2006). Her subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background. This compositional style is evident in her beach portraits, which generally feature one or more adolescents against a seascape. This style is again seen in her studies of women who have just given birth.

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Solo exhibitions in 1998 were held at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, and Museum Folkwang, Essen. In 1999, Dijkstra’s work was exhibited at MACBA, Barcelona. In 2001, exhibitions were held at the Frans Hals Museum (De Hallen), Haarlem, The Netherlands and the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. In 2005–2006 a travelling exhibition Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits was shown at Jeu de Paume, Paris and at Fotomuseum Winterthur, La Caixa, Barcelona, and Rudolfinum, Prague.

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Rineke Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Rineke Dijkstra celebrates birthday on June 2 of every year.

Begun during Dijkstra’s residency at the DAAD, Berlin in 1998–1999, the Tiergarten series (1998–2000) shows portraits of adolescent girls and boys photographed in the Tiergarten park in Berlin, as well as in another park in Lithuania. Another series of works was commissioned by the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam for their new building: portraits of adolescent schoolgirls with their best friends, a poignant reminder that any girl could be an “Anne Frank” in unlucky circumstances. These portraits were primarily taken in Berlin, though Dijkstra later expanded her subjects to include Milan, Barcelona, and Paris.

What is Rineke Dijkstra known for?

Rineke Dijkstra is a contemporary Dutch photographer. Known for her single portraits , usually working in series, she often focuses on particular groups and communities of people, such as mothers, adolescent and teenage boys and girls, soldiers, etc., with an emphasis on capturing the vulnerable side of her subjects.

What camera does Rineke Dijkstra use?

Dijkstra uses a Japanese 4-by-5 field camera , like the Toyo, with a standard lens on a tripod, and a flash on another tripod behind it.

How did Rineke Dijkstra become a photographer?

Rineke Dijkstra was born in Sittard, the Netherlands, in 1959. She studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986. Through the late 1980s, she photographed people in clubs for magazines in the Netherlands and worked for corporations as a portraitist.