Julie
Dutch photographer Dijkstra is known for her stark, minimally staged portraits of people at transitional moments in their lives, and Julie, a large-scale chromogenic print from her “New Mothers” series, is no exception. Wearing nothing but a small, sheer obstetric hospital dressing, Dijkstra’s subject stands straight against a plain white wall. Feet spread apart, she stares the photographer down, covering her breasts with the wrinkled, pink infant she gave birth to just an hour earlier.