Another Use Appears: Showing the Extent of Human Damage to the Forest
While industry tracks human impacts for profit, Mosse, meanwhile, opted to use multispectral photography to demonstrate the impact humans are having on the rainforest. He acquired a small, 10-band multispectral camera designed to be operated by drone and used by the agribusiness sector to assist farmers in identifying which of their crops are under stress and need attention. With great difficulty, the artist told Buzzfeed News, he learned to fly his drone and camera over sites of environmental crimes in the region.
“Environmental crime and deforestation in the Amazon have been normalized, and my objective is to highlight and communicate these crimes in order to, in the words of Rebecca Solnit, ‘make what has long been accepted unacceptable,’” Mosse said.
