Moorings - David Moore, photographer of international renown - Columbus Line - Brief Article

Business Asia, Nov, 2000

Maritime images by Australia's pre-eminent photographer

DAVID MOORE is a photographer of international renown. Among the many memorable images that he has captured and crafted are his photographs of Sydney Harbour, showing its many moods and growth over half a century. He is also admired for his artistic documentation of the construction of such major public works as Sydney's Opera House and Anzac Bridge.

As a young man, Moore served with the Royal Australian Navy. In 1978, the chance to renew his affinity with the sea encouraged him to accept Columbus Line's invitation to photograph the company's vessels. This has allowed him to record the evolution of containerships on the numerous voyages and assignments that he has since undertaken. David Moore's visual imagination delights in design details. The creative freedom he enjoys, and the benefit of the time available during a voyage at sea, has enabled him to produce images that present the details of Columbus Line vessels as pieces of sculpture and abstract colour fields.

"David's work is marvellously expressive, of course," says Managing Director of Columbus Line Australia, Achim Drescher, "but he is also highly meticulous. This combination of virtues results in pictures that define his work as genuine art, and we are proud that many of our photographs are numbered among them."

The photographer.

David Moore's work is represented in the collections of major institutions throughout the world including the National Gallery of Australia, the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. The Art Gallery of New South Wales mounted a retrospective exhibition in 1988 and in 1993-94 the State Library of New South Wales exhibited `Sydney Harbour -- 50 years of photography. Moore was awarded an Australian Artist's Creative Fellowship in 1994, partly to document construction of the Anzac Bridge in Sydney. In 1998-99, a selection of his photographs of Sydney Harbour toured regional galleries in Australia and was exhibited at the State Library of Hawaii in Honolulu and at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Many of these images are now part of the collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum. In 2000 an exhibition of images personally selected by Moore (`Fifty Photographs') was mounted in Sydney. These images have also been published in a limited edition volume that records and celebrates this work.

The carrier.

Columbus Line -- a member of the Hamburg-Sud Shipping Group -- specialises in containerised and breakbulk marine cargo transportation. The company is the longest serving container carrier operating between Australia/New Zealand and North America, having introduced containerisation to the trade in 1971. Today, the Company offers 97 sailings p.a. linking key ports at both ends of the trade lane, Sailings every 10 days service the North American East Coast, US Gulf and Caribbean. A schedule of fixed day, weekly sailings services the North American West Coast.

Columbus Line also services the Pacific Islands, offering sailings every 2 weeks to Fiji and Tahiti. Several services operate between North, Central and South America on both coasts. Another service links the Americas with Asia.

With an international inventory of over 60,000 dry, refrigerated and integrated containers, Columbus Line also offers a range of advanced logistics services including intermodal freight bookings on an end-to-end basis. Multi-skilled Client Service specialists coordinate these services. Web-based rate quotations, cargo bookings and container tracking/tracing facilities are included in a wide range of e-commerce capabilities. Columbus Line is ISO and ISM accredited.