Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse (Ireland, 1980) lives and works in New York. Mosse works at the very limits of documentary photography, appropriating imaging technologies to depict humanitarian and environmental crises in a powerful new light.  

His projects are presented through collaborative, large-scale, immersive multimedia installations with amplified aesthetics. 

In past projects, Mosse documented civil war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (2010 – 2015) using an infrared film intended for military reconnaissance. This produced incongruous images of an overlooked conflict in which the Congo’s lush, green, equatorial vegetation was tinged with pink and purple. Working with cinematographer Trevor Tweeten and composer Ben Frost, his film, The Enclave, represented Ireland at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. To create his subsequent film, Incoming (2017), Mosse employed military-grade thermal imaging technology, normally used for long-range border enforcement, to document a tidal wave of refugees landing on the shores of the EU.  

Broken Spectre (2022) is Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work yet. It is accompanied by a catalogue of the same name co-published by Loose Joints, 180 Studios and Converge45. 

Richard Mosse has received numerous awards for his work, including the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2014), the Prix Pictet (2017) and, more recently, the Grand Prix S+T+Arts (2023). 

The exhibition is accompanied by an eponymous catalog co-edited by Loose Joints, 180 Sudios and Converge45, and is available from Photo Elysée's bookshop-boutique.