Photographer Rineke Dijsktra was born in the Netherlands in 1959. Like Anna Gaskell, Dijsktra has been awarded the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize. Her artwork deals with transitions and transformations, and often features the same subjects photographed over periods of time. In her famous series entitled Beaches, adolescent bathers stand on the shore between the ocean and the safety of their towels and dry clothing. The subjects are classically posed, and all attention falls upon their slight gestures and self-conscious posture. Dijsktra's young subjects stand in limbo between childhood and adulthood as well as between the water and dry land. The photographer leaves the background minimal, so as to not distract from the central figure. In keeping with the theme of transition, Dijsktra elucidated the change that occurs in young people after serving their country in Israeli Soldiers. The series of portraits show young men and women before and after their time as soldiers, and highlights the changes that occur in the way they present themselves.
I am most interested in the sense of liminality in her photographs. The adolescents in Beaches are clearly between great changes: they are photographically captured on the threshold between innocence and the responsibilities of maturation.
http://www.rinekedijkstra.net/
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/permanent-collection/artists/dijkstra/
http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/4602/a-conversation-with-rineke-dijkstra-more-real-than-reality-page2.html
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