Richard Mosse was born in 1980 in Kilkenny, Ireland, and currently lives and works in New York City. In 2001 he graduated with a BA from King’s College London and completed his MFA in photography at Yale University in 2008. Mosse’s photographs and films document armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and environmental crimes, addressing the power and failures of “the documentary image.” His work complicates the production and aesthetics of existing photojournalism and scientific photography, highlighting their insufficiencies and seeking to overcome them. Embarking on multi-year-long projects of repurposing highly specialized film technology and military equipment, Mosse subverts their original intended uses to instead shed light on humanitarian concerns.