PhotoForum #99: The Missing Deer - Shaday Moore

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Published by PhotoForum and Shaday Moore October 2023

Designated as PhotoForum #99

First edition 160 copies, individually numbered

190 x 235mm, softcover

64 pages plus insert

Printed in New Zealand by The Print Guys

ISSN 0111-0411

“Shaday Moore’s ‘The Missing Deer’ combines a sense of absence with a narrative that is informed by science fiction, and an emotional charge, to trace the vision of an unidentified character in a post-human world.”

ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

The Missing Deer is an exploration of a world where humans are absent.

The missing deer in my book represents the small impact other living things have on their environments compared to humans, who are constantly progressing and developing their world and technology further. The Missing Deer is a suggestion of what the world might look like if all of humanity were to vanish and leave you behind. With the character as witness to this, and the missing deer as proof of it; this is what’s left behind.

Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima’s ‘Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde’ inspired the narrative for the character in my book.