Witness to Deforestation
Spectre comes from the early 17th century Latin word for spectrum, which further traces to specere, or, to look. The etymology denotes definitions from “colours, an extreme between two points” to “a ghostly, yet ever-present vision.” Now, the word appears in the title of Richard Mosse’s (b. 1980) urgent new film, Broken Spectre, which depicts the destruction and devastation of the Amazon – an area which spans 6.7 million km2 … Continue reading Witness to Deforestation
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