"The Enclave"- By Richard Mosse

Review of Richard Mosse's "The Enclave" exhibition

Portrait of Richard Mosse

For our latest Understanding the Image class we visited the Royal Hibernian Academy to see Irish-born photographer Richard Mosse's exhibition "The Enclave". The exhibition featured at The Royal Hibernian Academy from  January 30th- March 12th 2014.  The Enclave is a result of Mosse's three-year exploration of the conflicted region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and was filmed on location in North Kivu in the east of Congo. This exhibition combines three medians; photographic images, sound, and film .

Richard Mosse is an Irish contemporary artist that works in both photography and video. He was born in county Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1980.  He is a keen photographer, artist, and film/documentary maker. He aims to challenge and break with the traditional, stereotypical depiction of war photography, and he succeeds in this by providing his own unique twist through the use of infrared cameras to depict the scenes of conflict one would find in the Congo. Mosse has an MFA in photography from Yale University, as well as a postgraduate diploma in fine arts from Goldsmith College in London.