Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, London. He also holds a first-class BA in English literature from King’s College London and a master’s in cultural studies from the London Consortium. His work has been exhibited at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Kunsthaus Munich; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Tate Modern, London. Mosse is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. 


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Infra

For centuries, the Congo has compelled and defied the Western imagination. Richard Mosse brings to this subject the use of a discontinued military surveillance technology, a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for camouflage detection, this aerial reconnaissance film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in […]