Statement:
I grew up in Louisiana and spent Saturdays with my dad steering our small fishing boat around stumps and logs in a vast wetland network of lakes and bayous. My curiosity about this more-than-human world grew as I imagined how such a magical combination of plant and animal life came to be. I studied science, became a chemist, and learned to use conceptual models to go beyond what the eyes can see. Now, years later and miles away, I view the glacier-carved New England landscape as an archive of stories about our relationship to nature etched into the land more truthfully than on the page.
I photograph the land and combine images in a digital studio to reflect connections between representation, memory, and imagination. Visual layers, like the land itself, blend and clash in a digital bardo. I see these pictures as landscapes of becoming and compositions of movements and stillness cast in the current of time.
Biography:
@billgorephoto
Bill Gore grew up in Louisiana and seemed always to have a special connection to the natural sciences, the environment, and photography. He studied chemistry in college, received a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and from there went on to work as a researcher in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and imaging science. For a time, he led a research laboratory at Polaroid and contributed to the development of new photographic media. Bill studied photography with Sandi Haber Fifield and now lives and works in Connecticut. His photographic arts are grounded in the American landscape and search for ways to rethink the possibilities for visual expression as more than representation. His images are deconstructed and reconstructed in ways that amalgamate and juxtapose multiple realities to express stories, memory, perception, history, the power of nature, and the effect of humans upon it. Two of his books, “Swipe” and “Side Roads” were in PHOTOBOOKS 2015 and 2016 at the Griffin Museum. His handmade artist books include “Chez Pierre Has MOVED” 2018 and “Dimensions” 2022. He recently co-authored “The Saugatuck Cosmology” with writer Ted Wade, and this work was featured in the 2024 Photobook Exhibition at the Griffin Museum. His photographs have been exhibited across New England and have received awards and special recognition.
Selected Exhibitions:
Still River Gallery, The Saugatuck Cosmology solo exhibition 2024
Rowayton Arts Center, juried photography show, 2022 (Best in Show), 2023, 2024, 2025
Rowayton Arts Center juried group shows, 2015, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Griffin Photography Museum, Lafayette Gallery, Digits, Curated Exhibition, 2021
RI Center for Photographic Arts, Juried Exhibitions 2021 New Leaf, First Place, 2022, 2023, 2025
and Member Focus Exhibition 2023.
Vermont Center for Photography, Open Juried Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award, 2020
PHOTOBOOKS 2015, 2016, 2024 at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Juried Group Shows
Davis Orton Gallery Juried Group Show, 2016, 2017
Ridgefield Guild Juried Group Show, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Ridgefield Guild Cameraworks, juried group show, 2015 (first place), 2017, 2021, 2023
Carriage Barn Arts Center, Juried Photography Show, 2016 (Honorable Mention), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
Carriage Barn Arts Center Juried Group Show, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
Westport Arts Center Juried Group Show, 2013
Shoreline Arts Alliance Juried Group Show, 2013, 2020, 2021
Brookfield Craft Center curated exhibition, 2023
Loft Artists Associations, honorable mention, 2023
Meetinghouse Gallery, Beyond the Frame, invited exhibition 2024
Books:
Side Roads, self-published, 2016
Swipe, self-published, 2015
Chez Pierre has MOVED, a set of nine handmade artist books, 2018
precious time is slipping away
hope it don’t rain all day
Chez Pierre has MOVED
maybe there will be a place to stop and rest awhile
beyond the horizon
Three Songs
salvation after a while
follow the river, it leads to the sea
August Light
Dimensions, handmade artist book, 2022
The Saugatuck Cosmology co-authored with story by Ted Wade, 2024, web edition, handmade artist book, and softcover self-published edition
Portfolio Reviews:
PhotoNOLA, New Orleans, LA, 2015, 2018
New England Portfolio Review, virtual, 2020
Contact:
wegore@optonline.net