{"product_id":"road-to-the-farm-stains-ashes-by-ola-rindal","title":"Road to the farm \u0026 Stains \u0026 ashes by Ola Rindal","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWhat does it mean to photograph the same place, and what cannot be photographed?\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOla Rindal, a Norwegian photographer who grew up in Fåvang and now moves between Paris and his home village, has stated that he seeks \"poetic moments in everyday life that cannot be translated through language or any medium other than photography.\" Both \u003cem\u003eRoad to the Farm\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStains \u0026amp; Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e take this literally: they photograph what resists clear documentation. \u003cem\u003eRoad to the Farm\u003c\/em\u003e is a series made over many years of a single path—the route to his childhood farm, walked daily through different seasons and weather. \u003cem\u003eStains \u0026amp; Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e photographs marks, cracks, and deterioration found in ordinary environments. Neither book aims for perfect clarity. Instead, both use blur, abstraction, and the weathered appearance of surfaces to work with what Rindal calls \"things that slip away.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/RoadtothefarmandStains_ashesbyOlaRindal-6.jpg?v=1779379087\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis stated influences—Jurgen Teller, William Eggleston, Anders Edström, Friedlander, Tom Sandberg—are photographers known for unconventional framing and unconventional color or tonality. Rindal has said: \"by knowing the rules I was able to break them.\" About his own process he is direct: he does not rely on happy accidents, but he is \"chasing the coincidental\" and uses what interests him \"as a basis and see what sort of ideas I can show with it.\" What appears uncontrolled in \u003cem\u003eStains \u0026amp; Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e—the blur, the fading, the marks—is deliberate. Similarly, the repeated documentation of one familiar path in \u003cem\u003eRoad to the Farm\u003c\/em\u003e is structured and intentional, not casual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/RoadtothefarmandStains_ashesbyOlaRindal-3.jpg?v=1779379086\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth books work with material that has a history: a path worn by footsteps, surfaces marked by time and use. Both resist the idea that photography must make things clear or complete. The common thread is an interest in what photography can do when it accepts what it cannot see clearly—when it photographs repetition, deterioration, and the marks left by time itself, rather than fighting against them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"poursuite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53978397344085,"sku":"OLA-COM","price":89.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/road-to-the-farm-stains-ashes-by-ola-rindal-3287593.jpg?v=1779419781","url":"https:\/\/www.tipi-bookshop.be\/products\/road-to-the-farm-stains-ashes-by-ola-rindal","provider":"Tipi bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}