Richard Mosse

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• A million shillings: Escape from Somalia

  The Horn of Africa is an assembly point for thousands of men, women and children fleeing from war, abuse and hunger. This is the place from where they hope to find a better life.

  par Alixandra Fazzina
• A Pictorial Thriller

  If you find yourself in a conflict there are two things you can do. You can run away, or, the more classic
  option, you can poke the other person in the eye. Option two is explained in one of my favourite books
  of all time: The Pictorial Guide to the Martial Arts. It is readable as the guide that it calls itself (the author
  tells us we can use this particular technique in the event of a psychotic hitchhiker, although why this killer
  got to sit in the back is not explained), but to me it is way more fun is to look at the book as a pictorial
  novel, a photo thriller if you will.

  par Victor Shadow
• Raskols

  Raskols (Tok Pisin for criminals) is a series of portraits documenting the individuals behind the facelessness of gang culture in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.
  Stephen Dupont’s photographs depict ‘Kips Kaboni’ or ‘Red Devils’ and were taken during several visits to a safe house in 2004.

  par Stephen Dupont
• Places to die for

  Steve Davey is a successful travel photographer and author of the bestselling Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die. I haven't read his book, but assume it does not include images of what are commonly referred to as 'conflict zones'.

  par Erik Vroons
• A conversation with Richard Mosse

  On the following pages you will see Richard Mosse's Infra, a remarkable work in progress of what we casually tend to refer to as the conflict in Congo. Why go there? Why use colour infrared film? Jörg Colberg, founder and editor of Conscientious, a website dedicated to contemporary fine-art photography, asked him.

  par Jörg Colberg
• On Familiar Grounds: Larry Clark and his Tulsa (1971)

  Larry Clark (1943) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When he was 16 he started shooting amphetamines. With his friends, every day, for three years. He then left town but kept coming back through the years.

• Self portraits

  In this body of work, Jen Davis (1978, USA) deals with the conflict between self-perception and the
  way one is perceived by others. Through the act of photographing a mix of personal experiences and
  fantasies about intimacy, love and desire, she invites the viewer into her private world.

• Daria Tuminas

  Daria Tuminas (1984, Russia) wrote her MA thesis at the St. Petersburg State University on amateur photography and is currently enrolled on the MA
  in Film and Photographic Studies at Leiden University. Initially a freelance journalist specialising in photography, and the coordinator and curator of an International Summer School in Photography focusing on the new language of documentary and journalistic photography, Tuminas can now also be considered a significant photographer in her own right.

• Military camp

  Arpad Kurucz (1979, Hungary) encountered an interesting point of discord in Hungary, where military ‘survival’ or army camps have become very trendy. For some, military style is just fashion posturing, for others, it is a part of mental and physical training.

• Kashmir

  Emerging photographer Andy Spyra (1984, Germany) has for two years been focusing on a long-term project in the Kashmir Valley, the location of the longest unresolved conflict in the history of the United Nations. Today, over 700,000 Indian soldiers and paramilitary forces are stationed in the region. This makes Kashmir the most highly militarised zone in the world.

• Antoine D’Agata in Brazil and Cambodgia

  Antoine D’Agata (France, 1961) started his career in the 1980s in New York, at the International Center of Photography. Alongside Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, fellow travellers on the grim and shady road of life, he often ends up in dangerous, drug-addled and sex-fuelled situations. He has the tendency to
  get very intimate with his subjects. In order to get to know the seamy side of Cambodia, for example, he situated himself to the ominous “end of the end”.

• Car trash studies

  To the famous science fiction writer J.G. Ballard, the car crash is a “fertilising rather than a destructive event, mediating the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity that's impossible in any other form”. Born one year before Ballard published his novel Crash, Swiss artist Raffael Waldner (1972) seems to have been affected by a similar fetish for car accidents. His body of work Car Crash Studies, on which he worked for ten years, is a systematic photographic document of accidents involving luxury and sports cars. This book shows relics of a society
  obsessed with technology, mobility and wealth.

  par Christoph Doswald , Maik Schlüter
• Martyrs

  Ruben Joachim Terlou (1985, The Netherlands) is a self-taught photographer supported by the Sem Presser Documentary Fund. In January 2008, on his way to Afghanistan, he visited Behesht-e-Zahra, the main cemetery in Tehran (Iran).

• Antipersonnel

  Documentary photographer Raphaël Dallaporta (1980, France) is concerned with public issues which address human rights and the fragility of life. His thoughtful and engaging projects – often realised in collaboration with writers and journalists - have garnered international acclaim, including the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer in 2009.

  par Raphaël Dallaporta