The 2014 Börse Photography Prize winner is announced

The Irish artist Richard Mosse has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 announced this week at the Photographers Gallery. Mosse was nominated for the prize for his show, The Enclave, which was exhibited at Venice Biennale, Irish Pavilion.

The Enclave focuses on the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), documenting a haunting landscape, sites of human rights violation, and rebel enclaves, through six monumental double-sided screens ‘forcing’ the viewer to interact from an array of different viewpoints.

Spending more than three years in the DRC, Mosse embraces the type of discontinued surveillance film , once employed by the military, challenges documentary photography, and renders the Congo’s cancerous cycle of war, which caused death to over 5,4 million people. The resulting imagery registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, and disorienting pink psychedelic hues, and finds an alternative strategy to adequately communicate this complex and horrific war zone jungle.

Börse Photography Prize also published its ever first iBook, including works of all the 2014 shortlisted projects.

 

03_Press Image l DBPP14 l Richard Mosse, Man-Size, 2011                           Man-Size, North Kivu, eastern Congo, 2011 Digital C print, 72 x 90 inches.
Courtesy of Richard Mosse and Jack Shainman Gallery

 

04_Press Image l DBPP14 l Richard Mosse, Madonna and Child, 2012                          Madonna and Child, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2012 Digital C print, 35 x 28 inches.
Courtesy of Richard Mosse and Jack Shainman Gallery

08_Press Image l DBPP14 l Richard Mosse, Nowhere To Run, 2012                Safe From Harm, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2012 Digital C print, 48 x 60 inches.
Courtesy of  Richard Mosse and Jack Shainman Gallery

02_Press Image l DBPP14 l Richard Mosse, Safe From Harm, 2012Safe From Harm, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2012 Digital C print, 48 x 60 inches.
Courtesy of Richard Mosse and Jack Shainman Gallery

by  Xenia Founta