Statement:
As a photographer my interests go in the direction of the relationships between people and the places where they live. My personal journey takes me across open spaces and into crowded commercial centers in search of images that could help explain how it is that people can shape and use, sometimes neglect, and finally make connections to our twenty-first century landscape. In my first two photobook projects, Side Roads and Swipe (PHOTOBOOK 2015 and PHOTOBOOK 2016 at the Griffin Museum of Photography), my intent was to use tightly edited sequences of images to create visual book-spaces. I then moved on to Chez Pierre has MOVED, a set of nine handmade artist books, with each book creating small but more intense visual spaces. In each case I was looking to express with my art the visual connections that were constantly rumbling around in my head. My next step was my Life Could Be a Dream project and took another step down the road exploring perception and illusion. This work was followed by Dimensions and most recently Song of the Saugatuck. My approach uses digital methods but borrows from the printmaker’s physical process of using layers to build an image and our mental processes of combining real time with memory and sheer imagination.
Biography:
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. His photographs and photobooks have received recognition in numerous juried exhibitions.
Selected Exhibitions:
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Spotlight Member Exhibition, 2023
Rowayton Arts Center Photography and Sculpture, Best in Show, 2022
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Gallery, Digits, 2021
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, New Leaf, First Place, 2022, 2021
Vermont Center for Photography, Open Juried Exhibition, Juror’s Choice Award, 2020
Shoreline Arts Alliance, 2021, 2020 (Honorable Mention), 2013
PHOTOBOOKS 2016 at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Juried Group Show, 2016
PHOTOBOOKS 2015 at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Juried Group Show, 2015
Davis Orton Gallery Juried Group Show, 2017, 2016
Ridgefield Guild Juried Group Show, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017
Ridgefield Guild Cameraworks, juried group show, 2023, 2017, 2015 (first place)
Rowayton Arts Center juried group show, 2023, 2015
Carriage Barn Arts Center, Juried Photography Show, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018,
2016 (Honorable Mention)
Carriage Barn Arts Center Juried Group Show, 2023, 2021, 2018, 2015
Westport Arts Center Juried Group Show, 2013
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