Still from ‘The Enclave’, 2012–2013 Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. This essay is dedicated to the works of Irish artist and photographer Richard Mosse. More specifically the essay is concerned with Mosse’s seminal project The Enclave, a series of large-scale photographs and a video installation, shot in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.…
The photograph of Yusuf Yerkel, an adviser to Prime Minister Erdoğan, kicking a protester in the mining town of Soma has become a symbol for the contempt with which the Turkish government is treating its people. It shows Yerkel kicking the anonymous protester already lying on the ground as he is manhandled by two special…
This interview between Marco Bohr and the Argentinian photographer Elisa Ferrari was conducted in June 2013. Marco Bohr: You came to photography via ethnomusicology. Is it fair to say that you came to photography relatively late? Do you think there might be certain advantages on being a bit of an outsider – if that is…