Photography can be documentation. It can tell a story. It can be art. And sometimes — if the photographer is in the right place, with the right eye, and enough trust — it can make you reconsider something you thought you already knew.
Most photographers would have spent years trying to get inside the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. Glenn Røkeberg was simply invited. He is that kind of person — warm, genuine, and quietly disarming. People open doors for him without quite knowing why.
What he found was The 8 Hour Polish. Exhaustion. Unguarded moments between men and women who spend their lives in public but are rarely actually seen. He called the result his love letter to the regiment. One photograph is titled “Andy and Harry” — a soldier and his horse. That title tells you everything about what Røkeberg understood that most photographers would have missed.
Trusted Guardians is published as a book by Unicorn.
A selection of photographs from Trusted Guardians is available as an online exclusive on Artsy, in three sizes with a combined edition of 18. Prices starts from 2.250 EUR. Ten percent of proceeds from both print and book sales will go to the Household Cavalry Foundation, directing half of that to Captain Godwin’s Foundation — honouring the woman who made this project possible.
Ellen K Willas
Glenn Røkeberg : Trusted Guardians
Inside the Mounted Regiment
8 May – 31 August 2026
WILLAS contemporary
The Matchstick Palace
IVAR – Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15
11153 Stockholm Sweden
https://willas.com/show/willas-contemporary-glenn-rokeberg—trusted-guardians
