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 a…

- 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 mode, this was always clear to…

- Torbjørn Rødland

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

- 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 patterns. I…

- 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 product. An …

- Torbjørn Rødland

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

- Torbjørn Rødland

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

- 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

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

- Torbjørn Rødland