Richard Mosse’s Big Idea: Photograph the Invisible

In Incoming exhibit Richard captured the experience of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East using military-grade thermal detection cameras. Instead of capturing visible light, it detects body heat, which the human eye cannot see. 

Mosse represented his subjects in unfamiliar ways by turning them into inverted silhouettes without identity. Each person glows with body heat. Instead of being divided by race, viewers are united by the shared temperature of humanity.