I am over the moon to be announced ‘commended photographer’ in the Sony World Photography Awards! My submitted image was selected from 105,692 images from 182 countries. Thank you SWPA!!
Featured on the Ricoh/Pentax website!
Amazing interview by Ricoh/Pentax about my work!
Read all about it on: http://pxp.ricoh-imaging.de/project/eli-dijkers/
Selected for the street photographer book
Honored to be selected for the 2nd edition of the street photographer book!
ROTTERDAM PHOTO INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER - DAY 6
Day 6 of the Rotterdam Photo takeover.
Today’s image was taken in India. Each time I return to India, I remember my very first arrival at Delhi International Airport. Never having left Europe, I had no idea what to expect. Although India is only a 10-hour flight away, the contrast with Holland could not have been starker. A country with a population of over a billion, metropoles are the norm, and 77% of its inhabitants have to get by on less than one euro a day. Leaving the airport on foot I witnessed something I had never seen before. An adolescent walking on hands and feet, like an animal. His back broken like a twig in order to increase his begging income. India turned out to be a country where the dead lie lonely at the side of the road, waiting for someone to collect them, but also a country where a simple rickshaw driver seems happier than us. Often I wondered if I had not boarded a time machine instead of an airplane and had landed in the Middle Ages. The more time I spent there, the more this mysterious, mystical, and occasionally frightening country captured my heart. I keep coming back on a never ending quest for comprehension.
ROTTERDAM PHOTO INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER - DAY 5
Day 5 of the Rotterdam Photo takeover.
This particular image is inspired by a famous image of my photographic heroes: Daido Moriyama. His picture of the stray dog is very well-known in Japan and can be found on a wide range of items; from coffee cups to duvet covers.
