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Niyo
2014
Richard MOSSE
Photography
102 x 127 cm
The Infra series is marked by Mosse’s use of KodakAerochrome, a discontinued reconnaissance infrared film. The film registerschlorophyll in live vegetation. The result is the lush Congolese rainforestrendered into a beautifully surreal landscape of pinks and reds. Mosse said"I wanted to use this technology to a harder situation, to up-end thegeneric conventions of calcified mass-media narratives and challenge the waywe're allowed to represent this forgotten conflict… I wanted to confront thismilitary reconnaissance technology, to use it reflexively in order to questionthe ways in which war photography is constructed."
Born in 1980, Ireland. Lives and works in New York.
Mosse earned an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Artin 2008 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London in2005.
Photographer and filmmaker Richard Mosse focuses on war-tornregions, capturing the effects of conflict on landscapes and people in lush,cinematic images. Mosse situates his practice between documentary journalismand contemporary art practice, explaining that he seeks to represent theunrepresentable in order to “help us begin to describe, and thereby accountfor, what exists at the limits of human articulation.” The currentAmerican-Iraqi war and the ongoing rebel conflict in the Eastern Congo areamong the conflicts Mosse has recorded.
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Richard MOSSE
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