Helliniko, 2016
Richard Mosse/Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
A New View of the Refugee Crisis
Photographer Richard Mosse uses a thermographic camera to create images without visible light or film.
This is not a photograph.
The image of a refugee camp in Greece, shown above, was created by Irish photographer Richard Mosse using a military-grade thermographic camera, a piece of equipment typically deployed by border patrol agents. The process involves no light, no photographic negative, no color sensors—it's a picture created by the body heat emanating from refugees.