The collection of 10 photographs shown here cover both Nelson Mandela’s appearance at the Centre for the Mind’s What Makes a Champion?™ forum in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney in September, 2000 and at a private meeting with the Organising Committee at the Hilton Hotel where Professor Snyder presented Mandela with the Centre for the Mind’s Millennium Fellow Medal.

The photographs suggest a man who belies his extraordinary powers of oratory and inspiration with a demeanour characterised by humility, warmth, humour, compassion, pleasurable engagement and quiet reflection. In keeping with the Olympics theme, Mandela told his Sydney audience that he once had pretensions to be a boxing champion. What his speech delivered, however, was a sense of how far he had come in his struggle as a fighter for freedom and dignity.

The Nelson Mandela Photographic Collection by David Moore has been released in a limited edition of 90. The first 10 numbers in the edition will be sold as a set of 10 photographs. Each set will be printed on fibre-base paper, selenium-toned and archivally mounted in 20” x 24” board. The photographs will be presented in an acid-free solander box. All of the photographs will be titled, signed, dated, blind stamped and editioned by David Moore’s daughter, Lisa Moore. The size of each photograph will be 24 x 37 cm (image); 40.6 x 50.8cm (paper).

Price for set of 10 photographs:

Price for the set, $AU16,500

Editions numbered from 11 – 20 are also available as individual photographs (sold unmounted) in one size, 24 x 37 cm (image); 40.6 x 50.8cm (paper)

Price for individual photographs:

After 26 July 2008, $AU1,950

Please email Josef Lebovic (Josef Lebovic Gallery) for further enquiries.