Tom Sandberg (1953–2014; born in Narvik, Norway) worked and lived in Oslo. In the early 1970s, he studied photography at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UK, where Thomas Joshua Cooper, Paul Hill, and Minor White were among his teachers. Sandberg’s early work was among the first acquisitions of photography by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. His work is held in the collections of numerous other museums, as well as in public and private collections, including those of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.