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Isabella Moore

Isabella Moore is an independent photojournalist from Sydney

October 2022

  • A local resident paddles through a flooded street in Shepparton, Victoria on Sunday.

    Australia news live
    More than 100 schools to be closed on Monday amid Victorian flood crisis – as it happened

  • Miriam Charlie is taking a photo with her Polaroid camera, holding it up to her eye

    ‘Waiting for too long’: Why Miriam Charlie photographs overcrowded Indigenous housing

July 2022

  • Mary Dhapalany finds djundom (Morinda tree) root at Wulkabimirri.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Bringing the sun in’: the hardworking weavers of Bula’Bula dig colour from the red earth

    On a hot day in eastern Arnhem Land, three women collect pandanus leaves and djundom roots – and offer a priceless masterclass into a rich cultural tradition

June 2022

  • Don dale youth detention centre.

    Indigenous investigations
    ‘Is it really going to take a death?’: legal advocates say Don Dale must be shut down

  • Montana Matthews, 22, and her daughter, Kealia, 1, both had Covid-19 and had to isolate in their home in Lajamanu.

    ‘The biggest fight of our lives’: the battle to contain Covid in the Northern Territory’s remote communities

October 2021

  • Patricia’s 25-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, says the water in her house makes her feel dehydrated and weak, ‘like the life is getting sucked out of you, so that’s why most of us stay indoors. We don’t hardly have energy to go out. I was even drinking it when I was pregnant with my son, until I was about 8-9 months’. Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian

    ‘I’m doing this out of my heart’: the fight for clean water in one remote WA Indigenous town

  • Jack Cool

    ‘It makes us sick’: remote NT community wants answers about uranium in its water supply

May 2021

  • Ian Moore

    ‘They seem to have gone coal mad’: major parties sing as one, but Upper Hunter voters are not so sure

  • Col Faulker, 68, over 40-year resident of Wollar, NSW standing at the entrance of his home. A town now predomintaly owned by American coal-mining company Peabody.

    Environmental investigations
    ‘I’m not selling’: what happens when an Australian town is consumed by a US coalminer?

January 2021

  • Bruce Pascoe sits among Australian native plant Mandadyan Nalluk (dancing grass) at his property in East Gippsland, Victoria

    Full Story
    Revisited: Bruce Pascoe on overcoming a summer of trauma

    The Dark Emu author reveals how he has bounced back from the bushfires and a public controversy

May 2020

  • Bruce Pascoe sitting in the mandadyan nalluk on the hill above his property.

    The Guardian picture essay
    'Time to embrace history of country': Bruce Pascoe and the first dancing grass harvest in 200 years

  • Bruce Pascoe looks into the harvest hopper at the burning chaff from seed

    Full Story
    How Bruce Pascoe rebounded from a summer of trauma

April 2020

  • Asylum seeker Nadia

    Asylum seekers slip through Australia's coronavirus safety net – photo essay

    Already on the margins of society and excluded from the government’s support mechanisms, asylum seekers on temporary visas are left with no income and no option to return home

May 2019

  • Mother and daughter duo ride the Mecca Max Ferris Wheel at Meccaland in Eveleigh, Sydney.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Lipstick, glitter and pink, pink, pink: selfies rule at beauty festival – a photo essay

    Instagram-ready backdrops at every turn, 15,000 makeup buffs preen and purchase their way through Sydney’s three-day beauty festival

December 2018

  • Nadine Bush

    Women and ageing: 'I’ve developed the courage to live my own truth' – picture essay

    Seven Australians in their 50s, 60s and 70s challenge the notion that older women become invisible

February 2018

  • One contestant and his crowning glory at Mulletfest 2018

    'It's not a hairstyle, it's a lifestyle': scenes from Australia's first mullet festival

    Kurri Kurri, a mining town west of Newcastle, lets its hair down for Mulletfest 2018
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