Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse (* 1980 in Kilkenny , Ireland ) is an Irish documentary photographer .

Life

Mosse obtained a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from King's College London in 2001 . In 2003 he became a Master of Research at the London Consortium in cultural studies. In 2005 he received a postgraduate diploma in art from Goldsmiths, University of London . He last received his Master of Fine Art (MFA) degree from Yale School of Art in 2008 .

Mosse has worked as a photographer in various crisis and war zones, such as Pakistan , Haiti and the former Yugoslavia . Best known are his photographs from the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , in which he alienated the landscapes, the people and the jungle by means of false-color films.

Mosse lives and works in both New York City and Berlin.

honors and awards

• 2006–2008: Leonore Annenberg Scholarship for the Performing and Visual Arts from the Walter Annenberg Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA.
• 2011: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .
• 2014: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize .

Photo books

• Infra. with an essai by Adam Hochschild . Aperture, New York City 2012, ISBN 978-1-59711-202-4 .
• The enclave. with an essai by Jason Stearns . Aperture, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-1-59711-263-5 .

Supplementary volume

• Jon Holten (Ed.): A Supplement to The Enclave . Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943106-25-2 .

Movies

• The Enclave , 2012. The film is the conversion of a 16 mm infrared film into an HD video film. The film is shown as an installation on two screens in a dark room. He was a contribution of Ireland in 2012 at the Biennale di Venezia in Venice shown.

Exhibitions

• Infra. Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin 2012 and 2014 in the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art , Indianapolis , Indiana , USA.
• The enclave. Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2012 and 2014 at various locations such as Photographers' Gallery , London; DHC / ART , Montreal, Canada; Portland Art Museum , Portland , Oregon , USA and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humlebæk , Denmark.
• Phantoms in the Dirt. Museum of Contemporary Photography , Chicago , Illinois , USA, 2014.
• Second Sight: The David Kronn Collection. Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, Ireland, 2014.
• Young collections 02, Kelterborn collection. Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen 2014/2015.
• Traces of power. Art Foyer of DZ-Bank Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main, 2014.

Web links

• Website of the photographer (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dierk Wolters: Photo exhibition “Traces of Power”: Tormented, humiliated, killed . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . September 9, 2014