When Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s portraiture was first recognized in the mid-1990s, our culture was different. It was pre-social media, pre-24-hour news cycle, pre-Internet (at least, as we know it today). Dijkstra’s large-scale photographs of adolescents on beaches, made in several countries, were celebrated for the respect and empathy with which they treated young people at one of the most vulnerable stages in their lives.
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