Richard Mosse is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. His best konwn works are photographs of the war in the Eastern Congo using colour infrared film intended to create a new perspective on conflict.
Richard Mosse has worked in Iran, Pakistan, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia. For his infrared photographs he used a large format camera and the now-discontinued Kodak Aerochrome film.
The film registers a spectrum of infrared light invisible to the human eye, rendering the green landscape and soldiers’ uniforms in vivid hues of lavender, crimson and hot pink.
For his work Richard Mosse won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2014. In June 2015 he became a nominee member of Magnum Photos.
Images courtesy of Richard Mosse
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