Coming To Light
All Images © Francesca Moore
Many thanks to everyone that came for a portrait at Format Photography Festival – I hope you enjoyed the experience as much as I did. All of these lovely people were photographed for Matter Collectives’ pop-up studio event to look like an 18th Century Joseph Wright portrait. Really pleased with the results, and a warm thanks to all the sitters, Matter Collective, Derby Museums and Format Photography Festival.
More info on the post below, and at www.mattercollective.co.uk
Pop-up studio at Format Photography Festival, Derby, 14 March 2014
I’m really pleased to be involved in Matter Collective’s inaugural event at Format Festival this weekend. There will be three exciting days of studio portraiture, spanning the opening weekend of the festival, from Tom Hunter (13 March), myself (14 March) and Dafna Talmore. There’ll be live feeds of the images released throughout the day, so keep an eye on the social media links below to see some of the results.
For more information about what I’ll be doing, please see below:
Coming to Light
Portraits by Francesca Moore
Coming to Light is a Format Festival 2015 event, presented in association with Matter Collective. Photographer Francesca Moore pays tribute to the city’s eminent artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797). Wright was one of the most significant and innovative painters of the late eighteenth century, beginning his career as a portrait painter before becoming best known for his striking paintings of scientific experiments and industrial scenes representing the emerging industrial revolution in the Midlands.
In his paintings, Wright vividly explored the contrast between light and shade, using artificial light sources to dramatic effect. Wright’s formal painted portraits of prominent members of society were intended to affirm their status and document their interests. Working in a pop-up studio, Francesca will offer visitors the opportunity to sit for a photographic portrait that re-creates Wright’s moody candle-lit aesthetics. For her sitters’ these formal, posed photographic portraits, will prompt reflection on the nature of evidence in portraiture – between truth and artifice in Wright’s painted representations of his eminent sitters and in Francesca’s photographic documentation of visitors to Format Festival 2015.
Festival Details:
FORMAT15: EVIDENCE
13 March – 12 April 2015
QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter,
Derby, DE1 3AS
Event Details:
Pearson Building, King Street, Derby, DE1 3EE
Friday 13, 10.30 – 17.00: Tom Hunter
Saturday 14, 10.30 – 17.00: Francesca Moore
Sunday 15, 11.00 – 16.00: Dafna Talmor
Matter Collective:
Web: www.mattercollective.co.uk
Email: Info.mattercollective@gmail.com
Twitter: @matter_uk
Instagram: Mattercollectiveuk
Follow updates of Bhopal: Facing 30
This blog will be taking a rest for a little while as I direct my energies towards Bhopal: Facing 30, an Arts Council England funded project that looks at the people and the place of the Bhopal disaster, thirty years on. There’s a dedicated project blog, www.bhopalfacing30.wordpress.com, where you can follow news and updates. I hope you’ll enjoy the progress, and I look forward to seeing you back here soon!
Bhopal: Facing 30 Image selected for Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition 2014
Image © Francesca Moore
I’m very excited to announce that one of my Bhopal: Facing 30 portraits has been selected for the Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition 2014. The exhibition, showcasing the very best in environmental photography and film, will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, 23 June – 4 July 2014, before going on a national tour until November.
There is a dedicated project blog for my Arts Council funded project Bhopal: Facing 30, where all updates including further information about the Environmental Photographer of The Year competition are posted at www.bhopalfacing30.wordpress.com
Photocrowd’s Expert Music Judge PLUS Tips for Great Gig Photography
Image © Francesca Moore
See: photocrowd.com
I was recently the Expert Judge for Photocrowd’s Music Photography competition. Photocrowd is an exciting new photography contest site that showcases the best in photography by allowing everyone that takes part – the crowd – to cast live votes on each others work so you can see in real-time how your images are doing against the competition. The site was designed by photographers, and each competition is set by a working photographer and, as well as the crowd vote, winners are selected and reviewed by an expert judge.
The music competition was open during March 2014. 501 Music images were submitted, and a staggering 60,141 votes were cast. You can view my winners and commended images and read my expert reviews here. Great prizes were dished out by music competition sponsors theprintspace.
11 tips for great gig photography
Image © Francesca Moore
I also wrote “11 tips for great gig photography”. You can read the whole article on Photocrowd’s blog.
New Site Launched: FRANMOOREMUSIC.COM
Image © Francesca Moore
I’ve launched franmooremusic.com! No, I’m not dabbling in the music business, it’s a site showcasing the best of my Live Music & Stage Photography from recent years. I’ve dedicated many years to this, so it’s about time these images get a platform all of their own. Take a look, and please let me know any thoughts or comments. Enjoy!
Limited Edition Prints
All Images © Francesca Moore
Back from India shooting Bhopal: Facing 30 and pleased to see the show’s still hanging on the walls of Mange Tout (Brighton) until further notice. All images in the show are available as signed limited edition fine art prints, to the specifications below;
Edition of 100
8×12” C-Type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper
Bespoke hand made frames with conservation grade mount and conservation clear glass
£150 framed or £75 unframed
For further information you can email me here
Exhibition of Live Music Photography: Mange Tout, Brighton
Jarvis Cocker, Glastonbury Festival 2009
Image © Francesca Moore
I have an exhibition of my live music shots, opening today at Mange Tout, Brighton. I have been photographing live music for the past ten years, first dabbling with Nottingham’s vibrant music scene at the start of the millennia. Since then I have been shooting major stage events, and this exhibition brings you some of the highlights from the past five years – many of which unseen before – in the form of signed limited edition fine art prints.
Private View: Monday 9th December 6.30-8.30pm
The show will run until the end of January 2014.
For further Information and print sale inquiries contact mail@francescamoore.co.uk
I’ve been awarded an Arts Council Grant for Bhopal: Facing 30
All Images © Francesca Moore
One month ago today I found out that I had been awarded an Arts Council Grant for my project, Bhopal: Facing 30. The photographic project, in two parts, portrays the site of the 1984 Bhopal disaster today and of the people that continue to be affected 30 years on. A book of the work will be published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the disaster.
Production of a dedicated project blog is underway, where I will publish project-specific updates and invite you to follow for news of project progress and events. Until then, you can always find updates via twitter @moorefran.
In early January 2014 I will return to Bhopal to shoot the second half of the project, details of which will all be posted on the new blog pages. Then in due course I will be organising a series of talks and events in London and Brighton for local people to engage with the artwork, and with the wider issues of Bhopal.
With thanks to all those who helped make the grant application a success, and thanks too to the project partners with whom I look forward to working with throughout the duration of Bhopal: Facing 30; Bhopal Medical Appeal, Sambhavna Trust Clinic, Photofusion Gallery, Housmans Bookshop, Daunt Books, Community Arts Centre, and Asian Resource Centre of Croydon.
AIFO XXV° CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE – Roma, 12-13 Ottobre 2013
All Images © Francesca Moore
This weekend AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau) are hosting their International Conference in Rome – and their posters feature highlights from the extensive set of images that Lorenza and I captured for them earlier this year whilst in India. We’ve just popped into the AIFO Head Office in Bologna, where the images have been very well received and are also fronting many other printed PR materials including the 2012 Annual Report, and the 2014 calender. It’s great that the images are being put to good use – the posters are soon to be seen on billboards around Italy too, so watch this space!
For further info: AIFO is a grassroot organisation with groups and regional coordinations covering the whole of Italy. At the same time, AIFO is an international non-governmental organisation active mainly in two areas – (1) fight against leprosy integrated in primary health care services; (2) Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes open to all the different groups of persons with disabilities including persons with disabilities due to leprosy and persons with mental illness.
