Arts at CERN

Mosse creates collaborative, immersive works in photography and moving images that expand the documentary language of war and environmental crises

Richard Mosse is an artist based in New York. His work seeks to heighten and extend the language of documentary photography to draw attention to overlooked yet urgent stories. He works with the aesthetic power of his medium to create highly collaborative, immersive, and groundbreaking new forms in photography and moving images. He often employs special photographic technologies to encode invisible aspects of historically significant subjects within the materiality of his imagery.

Throughout his practice, Mosse has painstakingly documented environmental devastation in remote regions of the Amazon, the mass migration of refugees across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, bitter conflict over rare earth minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, themilitary’sry’s occupation of SadHussein’sin’s palace complexes in occupied Iraq, illegal immigration along the US-Mexican border, the missperson’sson’ crisis in post-war Balkan nations, and other subjects.

Between 2021 and 2022, Richard Mosse held a residency at CERN, where he collaborated with scientists and engineers to further his research into scientific imaging technologies. He was awarded a residency with Arts at CERN with the support of Didier and Martine Primat Foundation and its special fund Odonata, Geneva.