Romantic Humor


I love cute animals, white cars, ropes, logs, ladders, the sun. I like to see urban intellect weakened by spirituality. I put my somewhat sentimental preferences to the test, using the photographic image to fight irony and open up towards nature, beauty, purity. Yes, sometimes I long for the cleanliness of neoplatonism. Why is inspiration always wearing a corny jacket these days? I try to remove stupidity and humor from certain clichés of the recent past.

Nevertheless it is very difficult for me to make a useful distinction between what is directly observed and what has already been mediated. All meaning arrives a little late.

Many of my models I first saw on a tram, in a cafe, at a market. I know that you cannot approach a woman you find attractive and ask to photograph her…


The full text is published in "tema celeste" No. 84, March-April 2001.




Torbjørn Rødland