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IRISH ARTIST RICHARD Mosse has won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for his exhibition of films on war ravaged Congo.
The £30,000 prize was awarded to Kilkenny born Mosse whose The Enclave Exhibition was shown in a number of galleries worldwide including the La Biennale exhibition in Venice, the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.
Mosse used a Second World War type of military film which captures an invisible spectrum of infrared light and creates a psychedelic pink hue.
The military film was originally used to spot camouflage in war zones but Mosse’s use of it in photography creates a bizarre sense of fantasy in the realities of war.
The Enclave comprises six monumental double-sided screens installed in a large darkened chamber to create a physically immersive experience.
The Photographers' Gallery / Vimeo
The films were shot over the course of 2011 and 2012 as Mosse and his collaborators travelled in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrating armed rebel groups in a war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres and systematic sexual violence.
Over 5.4 million people have died in the Congolese conflict since 1998 and Mosse’s filming includes encounters with rebels fighting under the command of those sought for trial by the International Criminal Court.
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A sad fact is they will still vote Conservative, like the past few elections, not because the Tory party is of any use, it’s just no creditable opposition exists, Labour cant find its feet and Starmer is weak and goes with what’s popular rather than what’s needed, voters fear this, Labour will do well but not brilliant, sad but true.
@Valentine Kane: Compared to Johnson, Starmer looks like Hercules! Boris Johnson has never told the truth. It just goes to show you how much of a hold the British media have on the people that Boris Johnson got into power in the first place. He had more skeletons in his closet than Jeffery Dahmer.
@Mike Ruddy: correct – he’s realised what Corbyn was up against in the British media. And Starmer is much more palatable to the media there than Corbyn ever was.
“integrity issue”!!! Are they for real!?
They voted him in as leader. What part of his long and very public history didn’t clearly show him as a inveterate liar and con artist. Was being fired from 2 separate jobs not enough? How about trying to get a journalist assaulted? None of that was a clue?
Quite frankly, it’s galling that these people blame him. He’s clearly shown his true colours for decades. Have they never read the Frog and the scorpion? It’s in his nature!
No not the, Greens gaining seats. dig deeper into your pockets for that Lot.
Chucking Borris out will regain 50% of their vote. He’s toxic now.
@Kevin Conway: That was the plan all along, the Conservatives knew they were going to have a bad election so left Boris in place even as more and more scandels broke. That way they can now get rid of him, spinning it as if they are cleaning up the party, and install a new leader with a clean slate. No point in getting a new leader before the election and having a disaster, it would make the new leader seem weak.
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