Contemporary Photographer Research: Richard Mosse

General Février, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010 - Infra

Breach 

Richard Mosse is driven by an ambivalence toward photography and a desire to revisit and even rewrite traumatic cultural histories. His work seeks to explore and subvert photographic genres in order to unpack history and try to understand how the world is written. His work is located in the space between fiction and the real. 

Mosse was born in 1980 in rural Ireland and is now based in New York. He received Masters degrees from Yale, Goldsmiths and the London Consortium, but started out with a first class BA in English Literature from King's College London. Mosse has recently completed a two year Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts. This major award helped him travel widely and deepen his photographic practice, with Gregory Crewdson as his fellowship tutor.

Mosse has exhibited work at Akademie der Kunst, Barbican Art Gallery, Fotofest Houston, MCA Chicago, Palais de Tokyo and Tate Modern. His work has been featured and reviewed in Artforum, Art In America, Art Review, Frieze and Modern Painters. He has been interviewed about his work by Jorg Colberg, Geoff Manaugh, and Aaron Schuman. His work is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. It has been featured in Time Magazine’s photos of the year for two years running. Mosse was nominated by Alec Soth for the Baum Award, to be announced in 2011.

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I am so glad that I have discovered Richard Mosse, his work is so fascinating to me. I love how he takes ordinary situations (well, ordinary for some) and makes them extraordinary. It photos don't seem real, but are some of the most relevant things that are happening in our world today. To see more go to: http://www.richardmosse.com/index.php.