Trond
@trondfroestad.com
Wandering photographer || Still sitting civil servant || Oxford Brookes Photography MA Student
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Trond
@trondfroestad.com
· Feb 14
I’ll try posting every Friday from my #photography project, “And sometimes, even today, I call it beauty” inspired by James Wright’s poem Beautiful Ohio. The project explores the quiet beauty of resilience in public spaces during times of tension and heightened friction. #photobook
After last week’s post on duality, I’ve been drawn to how layout choices can carry a quiet pull. Working with partial bleeds, I find myself resisting the urge to lock the edit into structure, while still keeping the image held in place. The edges can guide the reading, shifting the weight on a page.
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
After last week’s post on duality, I’ve been drawn to how layout choices can carry a quiet pull. Working with partial bleeds, I find myself resisting the urge to lock the edit into structure, while still keeping the image held in place. The edges can guide the reading, shifting the weight on a page.
Standing before a fence, I think about the duality of man. Two surfaces differ, yet both draw the eye toward the space between them. The greys shift, and what once felt solid begins to soften at the edges. #photography
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Standing before a fence, I think about the duality of man. Two surfaces differ, yet both draw the eye toward the space between them. The greys shift, and what once felt solid begins to soften at the edges. #photography
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November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Photo folks, if you like what I show here, by the way, I also write a photography newsletter. Please check it out!
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I thought it would be fun to try something different. Instead of single posts, I’ll share a short series from one film roll. It’s an interesting exercise, trying to edit a narrative of tension within the limits of 36 frames. I’m searching to connects valleys and peaks within those boundaries.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I thought it would be fun to try something different. Instead of single posts, I’ll share a short series from one film roll. It’s an interesting exercise, trying to edit a narrative of tension within the limits of 36 frames. I’m searching to connects valleys and peaks within those boundaries.
Flakse: a Norwegian word for the gentle flutter of wings, a brief movement that disturbs still air. It is how space shifts, how light adjusts, how small moments can carry the weight of our times. Within frames, we try to hold these quiet shifts, shaping how we see. #photography
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Flakse: a Norwegian word for the gentle flutter of wings, a brief movement that disturbs still air. It is how space shifts, how light adjusts, how small moments can carry the weight of our times. Within frames, we try to hold these quiet shifts, shaping how we see. #photography
Reflecting on this corner, to challenge the fixed. The road bends toward the cruise port and the old shipyard, now a staging ground for oil and gas platforms. Once, ships were built here. The landscape has changed, but the rhythm remains. It is where the town meets the deep dark coldness of the sea.
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reflecting on this corner, to challenge the fixed. The road bends toward the cruise port and the old shipyard, now a staging ground for oil and gas platforms. Once, ships were built here. The landscape has changed, but the rhythm remains. It is where the town meets the deep dark coldness of the sea.
Trying to get some walk the floor editing done. Someone’s go other plans. #photography
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Trying to get some walk the floor editing done. Someone’s go other plans. #photography
Working through contact sheets makes time visible. Each frame carries not only light but also the experience between capture and return. Editing becomes a part of listening to the delay, where distance settles into memory and attention enhances what remains. #photography
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Working through contact sheets makes time visible. Each frame carries not only light but also the experience between capture and return. Editing becomes a part of listening to the delay, where distance settles into memory and attention enhances what remains. #photography
Working back through a body of work is a quiet act of rediscovery. Photographs once seen as fragments begin to connect, forming a thread between what was felt in the moment and what is framed within the edit. #photography
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Working back through a body of work is a quiet act of rediscovery. Photographs once seen as fragments begin to connect, forming a thread between what was felt in the moment and what is framed within the edit. #photography
With Storm Amy battering the windows and tugging at the roof, we brace for winter. The house tightens, sounds sharpen, and a colder light redraws routes we thought familiar.
#photography
#photography
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
With Storm Amy battering the windows and tugging at the roof, we brace for winter. The house tightens, sounds sharpen, and a colder light redraws routes we thought familiar.
#photography
#photography
A barely visible lonely figure walks the frame, dissolving into darkness. The town bends around us and the ordinary street takes on a quiet sense of a story to explore.
#photography
#photography
September 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A barely visible lonely figure walks the frame, dissolving into darkness. The town bends around us and the ordinary street takes on a quiet sense of a story to explore.
#photography
#photography
Structures hold our lives. They give form to imagination and memory. Spaces surround us, so familiar they almost fade. Yet when an edit of photographs isolates them, even the most ordinary surface can carry meaning and invite a fragment of narrative. #photography
September 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Structures hold our lives. They give form to imagination and memory. Spaces surround us, so familiar they almost fade. Yet when an edit of photographs isolates them, even the most ordinary surface can carry meaning and invite a fragment of narrative. #photography
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Over a year ago Anders Mørch invited me for an interview with Louisiana Channel – the world’s largest archive on contemporary art (as mentioned on their YouTube channel). We talked about my graduation, The Sochi Project, The Europeans & more. Full interview here: @arnoldvanbruggen.bsky.social
Photographer Rob Hornstra: We Have to Get Closer to Each Other
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September 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Over a year ago Anders Mørch invited me for an interview with Louisiana Channel – the world’s largest archive on contemporary art (as mentioned on their YouTube channel). We talked about my graduation, The Sochi Project, The Europeans & more. Full interview here: @arnoldvanbruggen.bsky.social
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While working on this project I have been thinking about how we form and define our spaces. As photographers, our position and the frame we choose inform the elements of a narrative.
September 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
While working on this project I have been thinking about how we form and define our spaces. As photographers, our position and the frame we choose inform the elements of a narrative.
Structures do more than hold weight. They frame how we move, live, imagine. A bridge is more than infrastructure. It offers passage while creating distance, and beneath its span life adapts. Gardens press against concrete and routines unfold in its shelter. A space of memory lingers under the arch.
August 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Structures do more than hold weight. They frame how we move, live, imagine. A bridge is more than infrastructure. It offers passage while creating distance, and beneath its span life adapts. Gardens press against concrete and routines unfold in its shelter. A space of memory lingers under the arch.
Some photoscetching from the last couple of Sunday wandering, searching for the structures of society. #photography
August 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Some photoscetching from the last couple of Sunday wandering, searching for the structures of society. #photography
Trying to open my perspective this week. Experiences beyond photography shape how we see and naturally flow back into the work. The peaks and valleys of life guide our attention, influence what we notice, and determine what we choose to frame. #photography
August 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Trying to open my perspective this week. Experiences beyond photography shape how we see and naturally flow back into the work. The peaks and valleys of life guide our attention, influence what we notice, and determine what we choose to frame. #photography
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“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels
― Joseph Goebbels
August 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels
― Joseph Goebbels
Composition in #photography can mirror the structures of the world. Both frame our view, guide our movements, and suggest meaning. Just as a sequence of images rises and falls, the fabric we build shapes the rhythm of life and place.
August 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Composition in #photography can mirror the structures of the world. Both frame our view, guide our movements, and suggest meaning. Just as a sequence of images rises and falls, the fabric we build shapes the rhythm of life and place.
There is always a mixed feeling when thinking about what value springs from posting the day-to-day of visual ramblings. Do the images matter if they are only part of the audience of process?
Each image will always stand on the one before, where growth comes from the edit, not the post. #photography
Each image will always stand on the one before, where growth comes from the edit, not the post. #photography
August 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There is always a mixed feeling when thinking about what value springs from posting the day-to-day of visual ramblings. Do the images matter if they are only part of the audience of process?
Each image will always stand on the one before, where growth comes from the edit, not the post. #photography
Each image will always stand on the one before, where growth comes from the edit, not the post. #photography