David Moore (British photographer)

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David Moore (born 1961) is a British photographer, artist and educator working in and around documentary photography. [1] He has had solo exhibitions of his work at The Photographers' Gallery, London, Impressions Gallery, Bradford and at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. [2] [3] His work is held in the collection of the University of Warwick. [1] He is Principal Lecturer for Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Westminster, London. [4]

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Early life and education

Moore was born in Blackburn and within six weeks moved with his family to Derby, where he grew up. [5] [6]

He studied photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, graduating in 1988. [7] [8]

Photography and theatre

David Chandler has pointed out that "Moore belonged to "the second wave of new colour documentary in Britain", having attended Farnham College of Art and Design, where he was taught by practitioners from the first wave including Martin Parr and Paul Graham." [9]

The book Pictures From The Real World (2013) is a documentary series about working class families on a council estate in Derby in 1987/88. Moore made the colour work in Osmaston, near to where he was living, for his graduation show. Some of the pictures were chosen by Parr for a feature in Creative Camera in 1988. A tightly edited volume of the work was published by Dewi Lewis in 2013. [9] [10]

Moore has made a "portfolio of works on secret and relevant state infrastructure." He has documented Britain's Houses of Parliament, published in the book The Commons (2003). [11] Between September 2006 and April 2007, [12] he was given access to photograph the Ministry of Defence's Crisis Command Center, a military citadel under London. At the time he was the only known independent photographer to have done so. [13] This resulted in the book The Last Things (2008), [14] while an exhibition of the photographs, also named The Last Things, was staged at Belfast Exposed in 2008 [12] [15] and at Impressions Gallery in Bradford in 2009. [16] He has also documented the top-security jail cells for terrorist suspects inside London's Paddington Green Police Station. [11] [17]

The Lisa and John Slideshow, a 45-minute play written and directed by Moore, traces the dialogue between two subjects of Pictures From The Real World "as they select and react to images from the project's archive." [18] The play premiered at Derby's Format International Photography Festival in 2017 and played at the Regent Street Cinema, London and the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast in 2018. [19] [20]

Educator

As of 2023 he is Principal Lecturer for Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Westminster, London. [4]

Publications

Books of work by Moore

Zines

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions


Films

Collections

Moore's work is held in the following permanent collection:

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  2. 1 2 "exhibitions :: Impressions Gallery – Bradford – Contemporary photography". www.impressions-gallery.com. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  3. 1 2 https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/whats-on/the-last-things-by-david-moore/
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  7. ↑ "David Moore". davidmoore.uk.com. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
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  10. ↑ O'Kelly, Lisa (11 March 2018). "The big picture: cool kids in Derby in the 1980s". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  11. 1 2 Brook, Pete. "Inside London's Secret Crisis-Command Bunker". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2023-03-31.
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