Vintage Violence, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
It is amazing the way that colour can trigger human responses and sensations. Red is perhaps the most evocative of colours and has long history of symbolising and inciting the rawest of human emotions: love, passion, aggression, anger, energy, excitement, power.
Irish photographer Richard Mosse plays with these basic instincts using a special type of infrared film to depict a confronting portrait of the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A country plagued with unspeakable violence as rebels fight with Congolese militia, the landscape is blanketed in a crimson wash as an invisible spectrum of infrared light, renders the green landscape in vivid hues of crimson, hot pink, lavender and blood red. The result is both strikingly beautiful, yet hauntingly sad, amplifying the tragic violence that plays out over this beautiful land in such a powerful way.
Men Of Good Fortune, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Sticky Fingers, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Taking Tiger Mountain, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Growing Up In Public, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Even Better Than The Real Thing, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Come Out (1966), North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Untitled XVII, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Ruby Tuesday, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
House Of Cards V, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
General Février, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
General Février, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
Colonel Soleil’s Boys, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
The Battle of Bambou, Ituri, Eastern Congo, 2010
Better The Devil You Know, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
Another Green World, Kisangani to Bukavu, Eastern Congo, 2010
Nowhere To Run, South Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
The Blue Mask, Lake Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
La Vie En Rose, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
