In 2018, after seven intensive years of working in the conflict zones of the Congo and at the frontline of the refugee crisis in Europe, Irish documentary photographer Richard Mosse "hit a wall of burn out" — and retreated to the 'cloud forest' of Ecuador, a beautiful part of the Amazon rainforest where high rainfall results in constant clouds, and enormous biodiversity.
"I went there to do this personal project, taking pictures in the middle of the night with ultraviolet lights of little insects and orchids and all kinds of teeming life forms on the forest floor," he explains.
"It was really a very personal, restorative gesture, at a point where I was experiencing fatigue. [In Ecuador] I was working alone, [staying] in an eco lodge with really nice people who owned it, and they had nice dogs. It was really nice," he says somewhat wistfully.
