Richard Mosse is known for challenging convention on the photojournalist's role. His book Infra, with photographs of Eastern Congo, is as shocking and complex as the conflict it explores.
FotoDC Projection: Richard Mosse's Infra
Published October 24, 2011
Event date:
November 7, 2011 - 6:00pm to 11:00pm
Richard Mosse, a photojournalist cum fine art photographer, known for challenging our tidy notions of the photojournalist's role, presents a new body of work, Infra, in a powerful night projection. His imagery of Eastern Congo's civil war is shocking and complex, just like the conflict it seeks to understand.
The Pulitzer Center co-published Richard Mosse’s book Infra, in partnership with the Aperture Foundation.
Location: South wall of Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University 730 21st Street, NW
Mosse will also be participating in a panel on crisis photography with Pulitzer Center grantees Dominic Bracco II, Sean Gallagher, Andre Lambertson, Richard Mosse, David Rochkind, Stephanie Sinclair and James Whitlow Delano at George Washington University prior to the projection. Their work will be featured in a gallery at FotoDC Nov. 4 to Nov. 12.
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Photo District News features the Pulitzer Center's collaboration with Richard Mosse.
Richard Mosse visits New York to discuss and sign "Infra," his new mongraph that challenges the traditional depiction of conflicts. "Infra" is co-published by the Pulitzer Center and Aperture.
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Richard Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, London. His work has been widely exhibited internationally,...