Skip to Main Content

Interview with Richard Mosse, 2017, produced by Michael Kurcfeld, 10 minutes, Courtesy Michael Kurcfeld and Paris Photo

Artist Richard Mosse (Irish, born 1980) discusses Incoming, his three-channel video that depicts fragments of events along two major migration routes leading into Europe from the Middle East and Africa. The work was filmed with a highly specialized surveillance camera designed for military use that captures images by detecting thermal radiation, including the heat of a human body, from more than 18 miles away. A highly immersive experience that presents the sights and sounds of a contemporary crisis, Incoming is both unsettling and mesmerizing and reveals the “harsh, disparate, unpredictable, and frequently tragic narratives of migration and displacement.”

11/17/2019