Technically, visually and psychologically, this series bring a lot to the viewer. The photographs are powerful enough that we do not need any subtext to read them. A brilliant catharsis for the viewers, a dark but enjoyable trip...’ Pauline Vermare (international center of photography in New York)
Artist Statement
My goal is to move people, like a piece of music. Within photography, I explore hu
manity as I experience it. My images appeal to sensory perception more than to that of the mind. By using black and white, contrast and grain, a parallel world is being created. A world in which light and darkness are allowed to exist side by side. Recently, my work is described as follows: “Beauty is not cultivated and ugliness does not seem to be a problem. On the crossroad of journalism, Dijkers exhibits poetry in the images of daily life, in a complex, undefinable way. The quality of his images is that they do not want to be more powerful than the world from which they originate.”
I am a member of noise collective, Dutch Contemporary Photography, Pictura and represented by Deelen Art Gallery (www.deelenart.nl).
