Dijkstra can be considered a minimalist portraitist. Her work often concentrates on a series of single portraits. Her subjects tend to be groups who are undergoing an important transitional moment in their lives: Adolescents, clubbers, soldiers, young mothers, matadors after a bullfight. Her images resemble classical portraiture, where the subject poses full frontal against a minimal backdrop. … (read more)

Dijkstra can be considered a minimalist portraitist. Her work often concentrates on a series of single portraits. Her subjects tend to be groups who are undergoing an important transitional moment in their lives: Adolescents, clubbers, soldiers, young mothers, matadors after a bullfight. Her images resemble classical portraiture, where the subject poses full frontal against a minimal backdrop.

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