The reason I chose Rineke Dijkstra to start this blog is because currently, I am in between an assignment on portraits. Rineke Dijkstra sets the bar for portrait photography by placing this bold character on a very light landscape such as a beach, or a field. Her works are mainly composed of the deepest human emotion. For example in the picture above is a picture of a bull fighter in Portugal, the extreme significance of this image is the raw emotion that is radiating from him right after his fight. Rineke conveys a message of invulnerability and shows the viewer that no person is immortal. Another point to come across in this image is how tettered and ripped the bull fighters jacket is, also the blood on the right shoulder, which brings out the violence in the sport of bull fighting and how dangerous his job is. Overall, Rineke Dijkstra is one of the best portrait photographers and when it comes to comparing human emotion to facial expression her message comes across boldly.
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