My goal is to move people, like a piece of music. Within
photography, I explore humanity 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. An abstract. A world in which light and darkness
are allowed to exist side by side.
My work was 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. It only requires the viewer to look.
The quality of his images is that they do not want to be more
powerful than the world from which they originate.'
