Artist, photographer and teacher, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, his father an architect. In 1937 he attended the School of Art in Wallasey, developing an interest in photographing architecture. After war service with Royal Air Force, 1940–6, Moore studied painting at Royal College of Art. From 1949 spent nine summers with painter Ray Howard-Jones on Skomer, an island off the Welsh coast, having met her in 1948. Moore taught lithography part-time at Watford School of Art from 1950, in 1956 becoming a teacher of photography there. In 1959 Moore was commissioned by Gordon Fraser to produce postcard studies of buildings of historic interest in Britain. After taking up a teaching appointment at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, in 1975, in 1977 Moore gained a major busary from Arts Council, then resigned his teaching post and moved to Carlisle to concentrate on his own work.