Thomas R. Moore

Thomas Richard Moore (born 3 January 1961) is an American photographer/artist best known for a preference of natural light over artificial lighting in his photographic subjects. Moore worked from his home studio in Lake Charles, Louisiana and in the field, exhibiting throughout the South in the 1980’s.

Life

Moore was born to Sherman Alonzo Moore (1916-1968) and Brenda Patrice Craig (1928-2005) and grew up in the fields of Oklahoma on a farm where his family raised registered Black Angus. Moore is the youngest boy in his family, one of nine children, and was raised Irish-Catholic. Moore has dual citizenship, Irish and U.S. He attended Parochial School in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Owasso High School, Owasso, Oklahoma. He attended McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana where he was listed on the President’s Honor roll during college and later obtained a Fine Arts Degree. He studied under and was influenced by Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, University of Houston, who are pivotal photographers in contemporary photography in the United State and abroad. Hill and Bloom were pioneers in digital photography, MANUAL’s projects fuse organic and digital elements to explore issues of nature, ecology, technology, and the authentic, and closely examine the points at which they intersect. This influenced Moore’s photography and how he related multi-media to one another, especially architecture and raw nature.
== Work ==

His first gallery show was a one-man exhibit in Dallas, Texas and featured photography, lithography and drawings. Moore was the sole featured artist July 11, 1986 at LaRiviere Gallery, Dallas, Texas under the title “Natural Light” which presented the works of Thomas R. Moore. Moore received the title "Artist for the month" in July 1986 by the Voice. Moore had a very close relationship to the play of natural lighting in his works. His photography exhibits how natural lighting brings mood and sensory impact to the composition. He tends to avoid studio lighting in favor of the richer quality of natural light. Moore sees compositions generally as formal allowing the reviewer to feel closer to his work. Moore did his own black and white as well as color processing at home in the darkroom and considered himself a purist photographer. He did not manipulate images in the darkroom. Instead, he relied on connecting with the image in his viewfinder to make the picture. The formal influence in Moore’s work stems from his interest in architecture and he employs graphical patterns in his images. He worked both in front of and behind the camera as a print model and photographer. Later in his career he worked as a cartographer and real estate investor.

Moore continues to live in Southern California where he is a real estate investor and is involved with the international film and photo shoot industries and owns several other businesses.

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