Last updated: 04/07/2009
Samples of work 2004 - 2009.
Contact: email | twitter (for news & updates).
All work © Jo Moore; please do not reproduce without prior permission. Thank you!
photographs.
In my image-making I aim to capture and articulate the resonant, fleeting stillness of single moments; the solitary and separate nature of human experience; a sense of melancholic intensity - what the Japanese have called mono-no-aware. My work in general includes an ongoing exploration into the transformational effects of light upon experience and perception, and it is in my photography that this is foremost. I work with Lomo LC-A, Holga, Diana, Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid 600 cameras, and use only natural or available light.
My scanner is broken: more recent work / better scans coming very very soon.
bookworks.
I have been working with book forms since my early teens, when I spent long hours in my bedroom making zines (many of which, thankfully, never saw the light of day). Over the past few years, my practice and research has begun to move away from staplebound zines and towards book forms as a vessel for texts and photographs, motivated by my desire to reconcile these elements of my practice with a need to create physical objects. The work displayed below represents this shift and my continuing exploration of the handmade book. In 2007 I established peach-tree, pear-tree press as a means of publishing my writing in small-run hand-bound editions.
other works.
Recently, I have been edging towards a practice that includes installation and intervention in a more holistic way than previously. The objects I contemplate making are small, fragile, quiet and subtle: they neither announce nor assert themselves, but await discovery. This will grow.
Samples of work 2004 - 2009.
Contact: email | twitter (for news & updates).
All work © Jo Moore; please do not reproduce without prior permission. Thank you!
photographs.
In my image-making I aim to capture and articulate the resonant, fleeting stillness of single moments; the solitary and separate nature of human experience; a sense of melancholic intensity - what the Japanese have called mono-no-aware. My work in general includes an ongoing exploration into the transformational effects of light upon experience and perception, and it is in my photography that this is foremost. I work with Lomo LC-A, Holga, Diana, Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid 600 cameras, and use only natural or available light.
My scanner is broken: more recent work / better scans coming very very soon.
bookworks.
I have been working with book forms since my early teens, when I spent long hours in my bedroom making zines (many of which, thankfully, never saw the light of day). Over the past few years, my practice and research has begun to move away from staplebound zines and towards book forms as a vessel for texts and photographs, motivated by my desire to reconcile these elements of my practice with a need to create physical objects. The work displayed below represents this shift and my continuing exploration of the handmade book. In 2007 I established peach-tree, pear-tree press as a means of publishing my writing in small-run hand-bound editions.
other works.
Recently, I have been edging towards a practice that includes installation and intervention in a more holistic way than previously. The objects I contemplate making are small, fragile, quiet and subtle: they neither announce nor assert themselves, but await discovery. This will grow.
