after a brief stint working with commercial photographers in new york city, moore moved to new orleans, where he continued a body of work first started for his senior thesis. over the next two years, he focused on the city’s disappearing commercial district, where he found subjects such as a coffin workshop, a broom factory, and a raw furrier–places employing artisans and out-dated machinery. the new orleans downtown development district awarded moore a grant which enabled him to produce a portfolio of one-hundred 8x10 color contact prints, which were placed in the city’s archives.