In 2018, the artist Richard Mosse was understandably weary. That project led to another video and photographic series focusing on the European refugee crisis unfolding around the Mediterranean. “I was exhausted,” Mosse said recently, as he recounted the events that led to his latest film installation, “Broken Spectre,” filmed in the Amazon rainforest from 2018 to 2021. This project essentially began with portraits of orchids.”Mosse booked himself into a remote ecolodge in the Ecuadorean cloud forest, and began photographing plants, lichens, mycelium and insects with a macro lens. He found that many organisms phosphoresce under ultraviolet light, so he created dramatic Technicolor images of the teeming biodiversity on the forest floor.

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Persons: Richard Mosse, “, ” Mosse, ”, I’d Organizations: Democratic, U.S . Army Locations: Irish, York, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq