The photographer Richard Mosse was born in Kilkenny, Ireland in 1980. He studied fine art at Goldsmiths and earned an MFA in photography from Yale. Conflict looms large in his work: he made his name with a series of pictures from the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, made striking by his use of infrared film to produce landscapes of shocking pink. He won the Deutsche Börse prize in 2014 and the Prix Pictet in 2017 for his video installation Incoming, about the migrant crisis in Europe. Lately, he’s been documenting the destruction of lives and ecosystems in the Amazon. Mosse is one of 15 artists taking part in Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis at the Hayward Gallery, London, from 21 June to 3 September.
