Who
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Richard Moore?
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Fine needlework
A black-and-white glimpse inside a tattoo parlour. The tattooists, their artforms and the clients who go under the needle.
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Queueing for Food
Economic hardship means Americans are lining up for vital food supplies from food banks and churches.
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THE
SOLOMON ISLANDS
The
Solomon Islands are a wonder for diving, exploring and
visiting WWII battlefields.
Check
out the latest addition to TikiTouring's travel guides
- covering the Solomon Islands.
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On the Streets
Covid 19 has hit America's biggest city hard and those who are suffering the most are those living on the streets.
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Life in New York
Having moved to the United States' biggest city I will be posting lots of images and articles on The Big Apple and living life there.
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THE
COOK ISLANDS
A
paradise on Earth is the way to describe the Cook
Islands. I visited in 2011 and built a travel
website highlighting the best things to see on Rarotonga
and the Cook Islands. I later lived there for 18 months.
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Richard Moore's novel about the 29th Regiment of Foot in the Peninsular War is now available on Amazon. Follow England's newest hero Joshua Firth. Click here
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Election Celebrations
The City That Never Sleeps did not like political barbs being aimed at it by Republicans and turned out to party after Joe Biden's election win.
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Protests in Times Square
Times Square erupted into chaos when two groups with strongly opposing ideas clashed in New York's iconic meeting place.
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VISIT MELBOURNE
Melbourne
is one of the world's great cities. Fabulous food and
wine, great sights to see and just a short drive from
the Great Ocean Road - one of THE best roadtrips you can
do.
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Inside a High-Rise Estate
Digging through old negatives I came across this series of pictures shot at an inner Melbourne housing estate. They are from 1986 but I think will still resonate today.
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ANZAC Day Parades
Images of the ANZAC parades themselves. Lots of pomp, lots of ceremony and a whole lot of interesting photos that I believe capture the essence of a truly special day.
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Faces of ANZAC
ANZAC Day is sacred for me and I have photographed ceremonies for more than 35 years. These black-and-white images have some of the best portraits I have taken. They are of Old Diggers and are from the '80s and '90s.
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TikiTouring.co.nz
In
2004 I began work on his New Zealand travel
website TikiTouring. It has more than 4000 pages of photos
and information on where to go and what to do in New Zealand and the Pacific.
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The
Troubles
In
1988 I spent a month in Belfast. While there
he got a close up view of The Troubles including a handgrenade
and pistol attack at an IRA funeral.
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Wogasia
Spear Festival
A rare glimpse into a unique spiritual festival on
the remote Solomons' island of Santa Catalina. I
was invited to bring this amazing festival of worship and
spearfighting to the outside world. It was hard going in
extremely testing conditions ... but I survived.
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Focus on People
The first in a series of images focusing on the many people I have met and photographed while traveling around the globe.
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Cyclone
Winston
Cyclone Winstone is one of the
strongest storms ever seen and it devastated Fiji. I flew
to the Yasawa Islands to document the destruction
and found out a lot about the strength of Fijians.
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The
Fall of the Berlin Wall
In
November 1989 the symbol of the Cold War between communism
and the West was breached. I flew to Berlin
from London to document one of the big events of modern history.
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Another Focus on People
The second in a series of photos of people I have encountered while on my travels. Some are portraits, others are showing them in their environments.
Papamoa Beach.
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Waterloo
200th Re-enactment
June
2015 saw the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.
A terrific event that Richard Moore took memory cards full
of images from the re-enactments.
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Maori Land Protest
Angered by a housing development on land they claim is theirs, a Maori iwi has occupied the area. I visited the Ihumatao site near Auckland airport and found the peaceful protest not only has merit, but the backing of many New Zealanders.
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White Island Volcano Tragedy
An eruption on New Zealand's only marine volcano - White Island - left more than 17 tourists dead and 30 badly injured. The nearby town of Whakatane opened its heart to the victims and their families.
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The
Rena Oil Disaster
Hundreds
of photos of New Zealand's worst environmental disaster
caused by the container ship Rena running aground off
Papamoa Beach.
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Jetblast Rarotonga
A bit of fun in the sun on Rarotonga
as visitors cop a jetblast by the airport there. Authorities frown upon it, tourists love it!
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Going Medieval
A medieval market is the perfect spot for a bit of Ye Olde Slashing and Hacking with big swords. Oh, and there were more than a few battle axes as well ...
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Travel
Award
Photo award:
Editor Richard Moore won a prestigious NZ photo award
for an image he took in the Louvre Museum in France.
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Coronavirus in NZ
From aeroplane arrivals, to greeting relatives, to doing food shopping, the blasted little bug is affecting the way we do things. Here is some of what is happening in New Zealand.
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Holi, the Festival of Colour
Holi, the Hindu celebration of a new start and love, is a riotous affair of throwing coloured powder and trying to make people as mucky as possible. The Festival of Colours became get the photographer!
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New Plymouth street art
Mooching around the central area of New Plymouth in New Zealand I found a collection of interesting wall murals. The guys and gals behind them have really enlivened their city's heart.
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How
about some surfboat action?
Getting
into the swing of cricket |
Papamoa
Surf Lifesaving Club
Lifesavers
on beaches around the world do just that - save lives. I spent a year with the Papamoa Surf Lifesaving
Club to capture what these terrific volunteers do.
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Cowboys in Hawaii
The last thing I expected to see while driving around Oahu was a rodeo. But here it is ... right next to a massive pineapple plantation.
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Christchurch
after the Quakes
Christchurch
is rebuilding itself after being destroyed by earthquakes 2011.
Richard Moore visited the city in 2013 to see how the
work was progressing.
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