Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product. An unproductive photograph designed to keep you in the process of looking is of course something larger… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can do well,… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I often have to feel my way through the alternatives. The 99-cent store is attractive because it offers objects that aren't promoted in glossy… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual. — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product. An… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I'm experimenting and pushing as far as I can. I typically don't know what I was aiming for until I see what I ended… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape, moved on… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I like to put a single photograph in different contexts, to see how it takes on other meanings, how being locked in a new… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by how images and motifs move between and adjust to different cultures. I'm a Norwegian living in Los Angeles showing a… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
