b. 1970, Stavanger, Norway

Norwegian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Torbjørn Rødland makes images that seek to redefine aesthetic and social norms. His work spans portraiture, landscape, and still life, and examines a wide range of cultural motifs, including ‘coming of age’ narratives, eroticism, materialism, politics, and Americana. Rødland’s tongue-in-cheek humour imbues his work with a surreal quality, as figures and objects are placed side by side to produce eerie, unexpected tableaux. The improvisational charm of Rødland’s work matches his investment in end result over process: ‘It doesn’t really matter to me how the photograph came into being’, Rødland has said, ‘The important question is how to see it’.

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