Richard Mosse: A photographer at war with the conventional

Sweeping fuchsia landscapes filmed by the military in the Congo in World War 2 have made Richard Mosse famous in the art world.

His film, The Enclave, and still photographs from the series, ‘Infra’, were selected as the Irish representation in the 2013 Venice Biennale and are on a nationwide Arts Council tour.

Mosse has been documenting conflict zones since his early 20s, when he travelled through Bosnia after the 1990s war. “When I was about 15, I knew photography was it for me,” he says. But his artist parents steered him into an English undergraduate degree. He formalised his photography training at Yale University, in the United States.