Martin Moore Jr

Martin Moore Jr. is an American photographer, filmmaker and YouTube personality. Moore has worked with brands such as Aesics, Resqwater, Honda, Sweettrio, Hyatt, Light The Hoan, OnMilwaukee and Kimpton. He is the current Photographer and Filmmaker for the American headphone company Koss Corporation.
Early Life
Martin Moore was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father was the owner of an electrical wiring manufacturing company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and his mother was a secretary at a cabinet company in Grafton, Wisconsin. At 7 years old he started doing magic. Later in his childhood Moore would perform around the Midwest as well as compete at magic conventions. As a young adult music was another creative passion for Moore. He sang and performed guitar and piano in The Identity Theft and Tonight, the City Skyline at venues like Summerfest, The Rave, 102.1 and 91.7 MWSE. He attended Grafton High School and graduated in 1999. In his Sophomore year he took Photography 101 learning to the basics of photography, how to compose photos and develop film but subsequently would not do anything with it until 2008. In 2000 After spending one semester at University of Wisconsin-Washington County for business he dropped out to pursue auto mechanics as a factory trained Master Honda Technician. For the next 17 years Moore would continue working and training as a master Honda Technician until May of 2017 when he changed careers and was hired by Koss Corporation as Content Developer, shooting all of the product photography and commercials.
Career
Moore started Martin Moore Photography LLC in 2014 where he shot and edited photos and videos for Weddings, Events, Brands and Companies like Honda, Sweetrio, Light The Hoan, Koss, Asics, Hyatt Milwaukee, The Safe House, JLL, Resqwater and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. On June 8, 2015, after making Snapchat Stories for the past year, he uploaded his first official Vlog to YouTube and continued uploading every day until September 14, 2015. From there he continued making personal Vlogs as well as working with other local Milwaukee Companies and Brands. As Moore slowly made a name for himself local news outlets started to take notice and Moore was featured as NEWaukeean of the week, and over the next few years he would slowly start to get more and more press. On December 6, 2016 OnMilwaukee brought on Moore to create content and on December 6, 2016 his first video for Eleven25 was uploaded. On December 31, 2016 he announced his final YouTube Vlog to pursue photography and video full time. In May 2017 he changed careers and was hired by Koss Corporation as Content Developer shooting all of their photography and commercials. Moore continues to create videos on his YouTube and Instagram Channels.
Other work
Moore is a keynote speaker and podcast guest who's been featured by OnMilwaukee, The Shepard Express, Light the Hoan, #OnMyGrind, Prsuit, DYI Photography, Urban Milwaukee, YP Week, NBC "The List," Unspecified With Eric Hurst, GoGedders Podcast, Bold Moves with Mandie Brice and Local First Podcast with Rob Kochanski. He released his first book in 2014 "Up in the Air" featuring original work.

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