"Palette of bubblegum pink film"

Stills from making 'The Enclave' for the Irish Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale by Richard Mosse. Mosse employs 16mm colour infrared film to render the invisible visible; his subject matter: footage shot in the Congo centered around the 'invisible war' / ongoing humanitarian crisis. Watch the video at the end of this post.

the installation

Richard Mosse: The Impossible Image from Frieze on Vimeo.

Artist and photographer Richard Mosse reveals the stories behind the making of his latest film, 'The Enclave' (2013), in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which will be shown in the Irish Pavilion at this year’s 55th Venice Biennale.

Fogo Island artists retreat

On the Fogo Islands (which lie off the northeast coast of Newfoundland) are six striking studios granted through the Fogo Island Arts Corporation. Architect: Todd Saunders Photographer: Scott Chandler Via Nowness

Mars rover 'Opportunity' panorama

A 360 degree panorama of the eerie false-colour landscape assembled from 817 images taken by the Mars rover 'Opportunity' between Dec. 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012. According to the NASA website: the photo shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary for four months of work during its most recent Martian winter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. The release of this image (July 2012) coincides with Opportunity completing its 3,000th Martian day on July 2, and NASA continuing past 15 years of robotic presence at Mars.

Lessons of Darkness | Lektionen in Finsternis: Part III

Swirling helicopter footage of the cataclysmic, post-apocalyptic and ravaged, oil-soaked Kuwait landscape, with Herzog's sparse and poetic narrative which provides no geopolitical context whatsoever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness

View Part I and Part II

Interestingly in early 2006 while Herzog was giving an interview to Mark Kermode for the BBC, an unknown individual shot Herzog with an air rifle during filming. Herzog continued the interview and later when showing his wound on camera, and calmly remarked, "It is not a significant bullet." [1]