The Past Inside The Present

Since 2005, my practice has focused primarily on a series of photographs of my immediate and extended family in Florida, Connecticut, Maine and Ohio and these surrounding environments. In this body of work, I have attempted to describe a specific type of narrative that explores a sense of mystery and the unknown; a feeling that something perhaps unknowable is lurking just underneath the surfaces of everyday American experience. I’m looking for a certain strangeness in the mundane and for a truth that’s stranger than fiction. Other concerns include technology and its relationship to contemporary life, the built environment, and psychological and interpersonal dynamics through time. The work blurs the line between tableau and real-world-witness photography. As I continue the project I’m particularly interested in how this meta-story evolves as my subjects age, new members are added and older ones pass on. Thomas Moore draws uses the raw material from his personal life to create haunting photographs that examine subtext, narrative, and the subconscious. Moore highlights both the beautiful and terrifying aspects of the human condition through images that are at once deeply personal a