As a medium, photography is all about sight. If you can’t see it, you can’t really take a picture of it. The alternative is, of course, things like art, music, or prose where you don’t have to see something to make something out of it.
In addition to the ability to “see”, the medium itself is associated with advances in technology. In this video, Irish photographer Richard Mosse uses specific qualities of technology to highlight areas where visibility is lacking. a lot unseen. An example is mood film that Kodak created in the 1940s to detect camouflage. Mosse used this particular film to photograph the conflict in the Congo, which, due to the diverse nature of the large number of fighting groups and infighting, is complex, confusing, and often overlooked by most media. through bypass.
The video illustrates some other examples of seeing and not seeing from Mosse’s body of work. Photography, for a medium so ingrained in technology, is often stifled. Only through combining two different components can ideas be synthesized. The idea, in a way, is to provide “more visibility”, if that is possible.
