With a highly constructed, at times fetishistic approach to subjects, objects and materials, Los Angeles-based photographer Torbjorn Rodland (born 1970) makes photographs that are formally acute, conceptually playful and psychologically evocative. This publication offers a fresh perspective on his work. Walead Beshty's text, "Skin Flicks," focuses on Rodland's approach to surfaces; Julie Boukobza considers a number of works in the exhibition by building fictive narratives around them; and Diane Nguyen stages a surreal and winding narrative performance through Rodland's image repertoire. Bob Nickas' essay, "Fifteen Years Later," draws upon the experience of looking at Rodland's photographs and provides a visual map of their complex system of symbols, signs and gestures. The publication also includes newly commissioned works by esteemed poets Stuart Krimko and Alice Notley.