infra · N^o5220

We can’t stop looking at Richard Mosse’s hot-pink photographs of the conflicts in the Eastern Congo. To achieve these vivid images, Mosse used a discontinued type of infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. “I was interested in [the film’s] original purpose as a military tool, but I was also drawn to its peculiar color palette,” he said in a Popular Photography article. “I wanted to use it as a way of thinking through this conflict and the rules and conventions of war photography.” His book of these photographs, Infra, is available here.