Espen Tveit started his photographic career with color images. He made his debut with them in the Preus museum in 1980 and also exhibited them in Galleri Galtung in 1982. Then he left the colors and started with classic darkroom work in an attempt to create pictures that expressed something about his personal life. He published the book 80s runes in 1989, and had exhibitions in Fotograficentrum Malmø and Stockholm the following year.
Later he worked with specific series. Most famous is Rite with football loops, which also came out in book form in 2001. He exhibited the series in Fotogalleriet in 2010 and in Bomuldsfabriken in 2012, together with works from the series Fra siden / Side-lines, which was published as a book in 2011.
Espen Tveit has worked on two themes throughout the black-and-white period, snapshots, often with a humorous angle, and a series of motifs empty of people. Some of these are exhibited in Gallery K under the title Intrykk / Uttrykk.
He had his first solo exhibition in Gallery K in 2015 with the series Svev, Rite and Social Archeology.
