A few months ago, Richard Mosse’s photographs of the Democratic Republic of Congo became quite popular because the infrared color film he used made the landscape a brilliant shade of purple. Spanish photographer Palíndromo Mészáros has produced photographs with a similarly unnatural hue, but the red that dominates his work “The Line” isn’t caused by his camera setup. His work documents the aftermath of a 2010 toxic waste spill in Western Hungary, which killed nine people and forced the evacuation of thousands. The material, released from an aluminum factory, has left a permanent mark on the villages in its path. Mészáros made a pair of supervised visits to the site in order to document the effects of the spill. He says that, officially, everything has gone back to normal, in that people have returned to their homes, and the government has constructed a number of public housing units for people whose homes were destroyed. Naturally, though, many of the residents still fear for their safety.
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