Rineke Dijkstra Quotes

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.