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Dutch portrait photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s most beautiful and compelling images are of adolescents standing alone on the beach in bathing suits, facing the camera before a colorful, lush backdrop of ocean and sky.
Not yet comfortable in their developing bodies, and flash-lit, as if suddenly exposed, they wear the expressions of children trying to be adults.