“If I walk in the street, I see houses, cars, trees, people. But in between there are stains, cracks, holes. Sometimes they are like sculptures, sometimes like doors, openings, and sometimes like drawings or paintings. It can be a puddle of water or an oil stain from a car, a crack in the wall, a piece of garbage… these stains have no meaning, no language or narrative. Yet they exist in between all the other elements around us”.
The project began with a spot on a cloth; an observation. The artist photographed the spot. Then, he created new spots with ink on paper. Furthermore, he developed the theme with both photos and drawings. After a while, he started incorporating blurred, sometimes nearly abstract portraits.
Blurring and abstraction are inherent in the nature of photography, just as it is capable of capturing a sharp image. A blurry image has often been seen as a failure, but Rindal uses this characteristic to express distance, a sense of not getting closer, not understanding. As if reality is escaping. The blurriness settles like a movement, a fog, a disturbance, an unrest, and withholds information about what we see, appearing like memories or subconsciousness.

Ola Rindal is a Norwegian photographer based in Paris, France and Fåvang Norway.
After assisting Tom Sandberg, Rindal graduated from the Photography and Film department at Gothenburg University in 1997
Rindal has published 14 books with his work, and has been shown in galleries in many countries.
He has also collaborated with magazines such as Purple, Self Service, SSAW, Luncheon, Apartemento, I-D Another Magazine, and he has a long term collaboration with artists Xavier Veilhan and Pierre Huyghe. His process is to constantly investigate his immediate surroundings through photography. This is a daily ongoing practice, and through archival material and new images he creates his projects. His main focus is on photobooks, but has also shown his work in exhibitions and on other platforms that are available such as magazines, social media etc.