Award-winning artist OL Richard Mosse (1997)has a major new installation in London. Filmed in remote parts of the Brazilian Amazon, the immersive video installation “Broken Spectre” is the result of three years of careful documentation of environmental crimes using a range of scientific imaging technologies. Seeking to overcome the inherent challenges of representing climate change in order to make visible the world’s most crucial yet ignored ecological warzone, “Broken Spectre” is Richard’s most ambitious project to date.
Richard has documented some of the most significant humanitarian and environmental crises of our time. He has mapped the journeys of refugees and their camps across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, and documented an ongoing cycle of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Combining reportage and contemporary art photography, he creates images of striking and unsettling beauty that push the boundaries of his craft to try and convey the scale and tragedy of events that are complex and opaque, often working critically with military-grade imaging technology and using camera, film, and sound in unconventional ways.
He fondly recalls his artistic journey being nurtured at Leighton Park by his art teachers Paul Dowdell and Simon Williams.
“Broken Spectre” is at 180 The Strand until December 4th.
Photo of Richard by Rose Liang
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