Samuel Bradley

I am a photographer on the verge of graduating. Currently interning at www.mackbooks.co.uk.

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  INFRA by Richard Mosse.

  Although it is by no means a new body of work, not everyone may be familiar with this series. I’ve been revisiting it whilst researching my dissertation. Mosse’s approach to the project involved shooting with Kodak Aerochrome, a film developed during the cold war for photographing an enemy’s location from the air. I’m particularly fascinated by how this film renders the landscape.
  

   Mosse talks about the photographs and his choice of medium in conversation with ‘Jorg Colberg’ on ‘Conscientious.’

  “I was especially interested in how Aerochrome perceives and makes visible an imperceptible part of the light spectrum. In almost all of my work I struggle with the challenge of representing abstract or contingent phenomena that are virtually impossible to see, or at least very difficult to put before a camera lens. This is especially the case in Eastern Congo, where my subject was inherently hidden. From the little I had learned about this conflict, as well as from my past experience working in similar situations, I knew ahead of time that my subject would elude me. Rather like Marlow on the steamer, I was pursuing something essentially ineffable, something so trenchantly real that it verges on the abstract.” - Richard Mosse in conversation with Jorg Colberg for ‘Conscientious’

  
  

  26 Sep 2011 / 36 notes