White Planet Black Heart Ursula Schulz-Dornburg suggesting the atavistic overlap of

suggesting the atavistic overlap of mother and daughter

plus numerous essays on other artists and photographers from Walker Evans to Robert Mapplethorpe

These are real places

photographing everyday landscapes is a way to acknowledge the importance of the vernacular

Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary

White Planet Black Heart Ursula Schulz-Dornburg suggesting the atavistic overlap ofTorbjrn Rdland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop: a master of the delicately orchestrated cliche overload, a surcharge of the too obvious, too cute or too insane, played to the point where, drained of all trace of common sense, it suggests a new sense of silence, of mystery. Rdland has a knack for producing images that make you ask what are, in fact, appropriate motives for art photography: Images of single audio or video cassettes?