Raymond Moore
Raymond Moore was a famous photographer from Wallasey England. In 1947 he started to study at the Royal College Of Art in London after he had finished serving in the Royal Air Force after World War 2, here he was rained as a painter, as much as he loved painting however he didnt feel like it was what he was supposed to be. He wanted to start focusing on his photographic career, which thankfully started off in 1955 when he finally became a freelance photographer! One year after this accomplishment he started teaching Watford College Of Arts, inspiring students to try out photography. over 10 years later in 1967 the Royal Watercolour Society put some of his work on display in an exhibition, following this the Welsh Arts Council did the same thing a year later.
The BBC ended up doing a small show based on Raymond called "Every So Often" which is amazing since photographers often didn't get shows on large streaming platforms such as BBC. At the time the show was created Raymond wasn't considered 'Famous' so it was also amazing that he managed to get a show without being the large public figure he ended up being.
By now its been over 20 years since Moore started to sell his out-of-print work professionally. Though his work had connotations of war scattered around I still think him showing off nature quite a lot in his work is an inspiration and the way he shoots it is interesting, below I have looked into one of his pieces.
I'd like to take a look at a piece of work he has produced. Much like with Paul Hills work it looks to have an upsetting undertone in the work, the black and white isn't a clear back and white either. It looks to be quite grainy. None of the trees in the photograph seem to have leaves, meaning they are dead or this was taken in fall or winter. If they are dead it would make sense since the topic of death goes quite well with the environment he took the photo in. There is quite a lot of fog which had engulfed the rest of the environment so we cant really see what's around it. The same can be said about the sky.
Because of Raymonds long history with war this makes me wonder if here he tried to connect that into his work, there is no people in the image even though there are direction signs, this could mean that this area has been abandoned and because of this the signs which normally give people directions of where to go have been rendered useless because there is no longer anyone to read it. Along with this on the floor next to the box it looks like there is some sticks and such on the ground, normally in a public area there is someone who cleans up the random pieces of plants/wildlife on the floor if its gets too excessive but in this case if the area really is abandoned there isnt which would explain that on the floor.
The sky is quite dark and gloomy which again sets the depressive atmosphere, you cant properly see the sky due to the amount of fog. Right in the middle of the image
The sky is quite dark and gloomy which again sets the depressive atmosphere, you cant properly see the sky due to the amount of fog. Right in the middle of the image
