the dutch photographer rineke dijkstra (1959) has achieved international acclaim through her powerful cycles of portraits, focusing primarily on highly specific, ordinary people and their individual fates and emotions. her large-format portraits are simple, rendered in subtle colours yet full of intense expression, classically composed yet charged with an extraordinary emotional force, far removed from any arbitrary stereotypes. on show in prague at the galerie rudolfinum, czech republic june 1 – august 27, 2006. exhibition curator: hripsimé visser.