Alumni in de spotlight: Eli Dijkers

Eli Dijkers

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 or 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.' More images are available on www.elidijkers.com. Eli is represented by Gallery Deelen Art in Rotterdam.

On the series ‘Twilight’: Change is ubiquitous in China.

Old buildings are replaced by uniform 30 stories flats and 20 million Chinese relocate to cities each year. On the other hand, China’s 5,000-year-old history is firmly anchored in society. These opposite forces place China in a twilight zone between past and future, creating a world of opportunities, uncertainties and challenges.