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 photograph inspired by Japanese image culture in an American beach town named after a sinking city in Italy.
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
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 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
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…
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'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…
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
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…
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
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 …
Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photo… - Torbjørn Rødland
Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photo…
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've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,…
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual. - Torbjørn Rødland
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.
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
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…
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