Photographer and filmmaker Richard Mosse creates sumptuous, cinematic images that confront the realities of human conflict within fragile natural landscapes. Moving fluidly between photojournalism and contemporary art, his work probes how violence is mediated and perceived. He is best known for Infra, a series of vividly colored, large-scale photographs depicting fighters, civilians, and terrain in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Using Kodak Aerochrome—now-discontinued infrared surveillance film that renders foliage in electric pinks and reds—Mosse transforms the landscape into a hallucinatory, unsettling theater of war, intensifying the psychological charge of the scenes he captures.In 2014, Infra earned him the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Mosse received his MFA in photography from Yale University in 2008 and has since exhibited internationally at major institutions including The Bass, Foam Fotografiemuseum, and Tate Modern. He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and in 2017 was awarded the Prix Pictet for a series of heat-map images documenting a Greek refugee camp, created with a military-grade thermal surveillance camera.
