Rineke Dijkstra’s 1994 photo portrait “Julie” is one of a series showing women in the immediate aftermath of giving birth.
The brave person we see here is called Julie. She’s in The Hague, the year is 1994, and she has just done the bravest thing human beings do that’s somehow considered routine. She has given birth.
For that is what it is: an emergency, with its own altered, adrenaline-affected sense of time; its hormonal distortions of perception; and, of course, its stamp of uniqueness. No two births are the same. Her female subjects are presented with a frankness that can be very confronting but is also exceptionally beautiful. Exceptional, because Dijkstra’s photographs are always reminding us of the fragile and unknowable nature of the person they show — and by extension, of all the things that are inimitable and unknowable about you and me and everyone else, too.
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