Casey moore: But for the Wisdom.

The spark for Casey Moore’s ongoing photographic series But For the Wisdom started in 2018, when he happened upon a verge on the side of a road overflowing with wild flowers. A few days later he went back and shot his first meadow. It wasn’t obvious at the time as to why he shot this as a double exposure, but in hindsight it became clear that this was the way to capture the riot of life and beauty he found in that meadow.  

Two years later, Moore deliberately set out to create a rush of images in the series which now amounts to about 20 compositions. But For the Wisdom fully immerses the viewer in an abundance of impossible detail. The freedom in the process - Moore doesn’t see the final image until he has developed it in the darkroom - comes across in the final shot. The two compositions overlap and layer, reverberating an energy that is particular only to nature. They, quite literally, teem with life.

We featured Casey’s photo series ‘But for the Wisdom’ in our Spring Summer 24 Magazine ‘Grow’.