Richard Mosse: Incoming

I was recently reminded a film exhibition I saw a few years ago at The Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London…

Richard Mosse: Incoming

It was completely haunting & eerily beautiful; a collaboration between conceptual documentary filmmaker Richard Mosse with a composer & cinematographer. Using a powerful telephoto camera detecting the human body form over 30km away in daylight or in the darkness of nightfall, the exhibition tells a powerful story of the migrant crisis that will stay with me for a long time.

www.richardmosse.com/projects/incoming
Main Image from: www.1000wordsmag.com/richard-mosse/

At a time when, according to the UN, the world is experiencing the largest migration of people since World War II, with more than a million people fleeing to Europe by sea in 2015 – escaping war, climate change, persecution and poverty – Richard Mosse’s film presents a portrait of migrants made with a camera that sees as a missile sees. The film bears witness to significant chapters in recent world events, mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology that reads only heat, and is blind to skin colour, capturing glowing bodies crossing dangerous waters, drowning at sea, or sleeping in makeshift camps, presenting a story of humans struggling against the elements for survival.