Jonathan Moore

Jonathan Moore focuses in his work on documentary photography. His projects take him around the world giving a voice to underrepresented communities and people often on the fringes of society.

There is also another side to Jonathan Moore photography. At times quite lyrical landscapes provide a counter balance to his documentary work.

Tbilisi Drag

In 2024 Jonathan Moore worked extensively in Georgia documenting people and their lives in the politically fraught climate of Georgian society.

His photos of the Tbilisi Drag scene portrait a vibrant and assertive LGBT culture at risk of being driven underground by hostile coercive legislation introduced by the ruling Georgian Dream party.

Zaeta

Jonathan Moore’s 2019 photo essay Zaeta is the story of a community of refugees living in the remains of a world that ended decades ago. In the early 1990s a conflict in Abkhazia – a disputed territory on the western edge of Georgia – caused around 200,000 people to be displaced. Around 10,000 of them were placed in the remains of an extravagant network of
hotels built by Stalin as a symbol of Soviet prosperity, at a time when citizens were required to take enforced rest.

Nearly 30 years later, several hundred refugees remain, and the hotels have become a permanent home to multipple generations. Amid these crumbling remnants of once decadent surroundings from another time, the refugees have built their lives in a post-apocalyptic environment despite their struggle for basic necessities.

Peak Mid Winter

Estuary

The Sea Must Whisper

Ukraine