Richard Mosse is driven by an ambivalence toward photography and a desire to revisit and even rewrite traumatic cultural histories. His work seeks to explore and subvert photographic genres in order to unpack history and try to understand how the world is written. His work is located in the space between fiction and the real.
Mosse was born in 1980 in rural Ireland and is now based in New York. He received Masters degrees from Yale, Goldsmiths and the London Consortium, but started out with a first class BA in English Literature from King’s College London. Mosse has recently completed a two year Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts. This major award helped him travel widely and deepen his photographic practice, with Gregory Crewdson as his fellowship tutor.
