Richard Mosse was a key source of inspiration when we began forming our idea. Richard Mosse (born 1980, Kilkenny, Ireland) is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. In much of Mosse's work, he makes social statements by altering perceptions, often by experimenting with medium and different ways of capturing light.
Eastern Congo's Conflict
In this photography series, Mosse documented the Eastern Congo conflict in a completely new way, that brought attention to the severely under-documented humanitarian crisis. Mosse began experimenting with Aerochrome film in 2009. Invented for reconnaissance during the Second World War, it registers infrared light normally invisible to the naked eye, and turns things a kitschy pink in the process.
Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "His images from there often seem to skirt the real and the fictional, simply though their heightened and unreal colours. He has made the familiar seem strange and the real seem heightened to the point of absurdity. This is war reportage – but not as we know it."
Heat Maps '16-'17, 'Incoming'
Similarly to Mosse's earlier work in the Congo, 'Heat Maps' uses the capturing of light in new ways in order to draw attention to a humanitarian, social subject. a series of panoramic images of refugee camps across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, created using a military-grade thermal camera that can detect body heat from a distance of 18 miles. By utilising thermal cameras in this way, Mosse immediately separates the refugees from their racial background, rendering them universally human and altering viewer perspectives. In this series, "the astonishing intensity of his film means he has succeeded. Mosse reminds us, is a human tragedy – our human tragedy. We are all implicated in its unfolding."
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