- Studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986
- A self-portrait produced during her rehabilitation, in which she is seen having just emerged from a pool, exhausted, sparked a new direction in her work
- These formed her breakthrough Beaches series (1992–96), which featured her young subjects in different locations in the United States and Europe
- She also commenced a series of images of Almerisa, an adolescent Bosnian refugee, whom she continued to photograph until 2003
- She has also focused on particular individuals entering the military, as in her images of Olivier Silva, a French Foreign Legionnaire (2000–01), and new inductees into the Israeli army (2002–03)
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/01/14/what-s-in-a-portrait-rineke-dijkstra-s-almerisa
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Rineke%20Dijkstra&page=1&f=Name&cr=4
- Renike is influential to my work as she has created sets of images over a period of time. The series of images go on a journey with the subject or several subjects to show how their life changes throughout the time she spend capturing them.
