Torbjørn Rødland

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I often have to feel my way through the alternatives. The 99-cent store is attractive because it offers objects that aren't promoted…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a…

— Torbjørn Rødland

It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I'm experimenting and pushing as far as I can. I typically don't know what I was aiming for until I see what…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I like to put a single photograph in different contexts, to see how it takes on other meanings, how being locked in…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I am fascinated by how images and motifs move between and adjust to different cultures. I'm a Norwegian living in Los Angeles…

— Torbjørn Rødland