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Richard Mosse’s new body of work, Ultra, captures the precious, irreplaceable beauty of the
rainforest eco-system through a closely examined depiction of its plant and insect life. At a
time when the fragile rainforest is under serious threat from population pressure, burning and
deforestation, cattle farms, palm oil plantations, illegal goldmines, and other human-built
infrastructure, Mosse investigates the complexity of its biome, its symbiotic relationships and
interdependency.
The rainforest is a place of constant predation, where the natural world is in a perpetual cycle
of kill-or-be-killed. …