Tom Gore

After university I photographed golf for TV, resulting in a life long aversion to anything involving balls. I love women and buildings, however, so I became a commercial photographer specializing in fashion and architecture. Since those halcyon days I taught photography at the University of Victoria for forty years, including fine art photography, photo journalism and the history of photography.

Current work includes street photography in France, Italy, Spain and Turkey, the landscape from the Arctic to the tropics, graffiti, the image as metaphor and the nude, both in the studio and the landscape, along with my Atget re-photographic project in Paris. I work out of a beautiful studio in Victoria's historic Chinatown.

After many years of Leicas, Nikons and Hasselblads and too many hours in the darkroom, I've become a digital convert and work with a Nikon D800e, a Sony Alpha 1600 and Photoshop CS6 with plugins including many Nik products and Filter Forge. The 'blads were eventually sold to buy a sail boat, from which I never looked back, though I've found many women don't like being frightened or cold and that's a lot of what sailing in the Pacific North West is about!

Please have a look at my own website at tomgore dot 1x dot com [link removed] and my page at modelmayhem dot com slash tomgore. If you're interested in modeling please drop me a line. I'm always interested in working with new and adventurous women so please don't be shy.

I've written for many magazines and won the Photographic Society of America's 2012 award for critical writing. I've also curated or juried more than fifty exhibitions of photography, served on the board of the BC Civil Liberties Association, the Communication Arts Society and the Society for Photographic Education and am art director of the Paper Maché. I also lecture and write about the history of photography, especially the nude and the portrait. For biographic info see my listings in Who's Who in American Artand the Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators.

Publication credits include Kew Magazine, Devon Today, Globe & Mail, Saturday Night, CNN, MGM, Mandalay Pictures, Surreal Beauty Magazine, Camera Canada (portfolio), Camera Mainichi (several portfolios), Raddle Moon (several portfolios), Image in Progress (portfolio), Expressiions Magazine and EROS Magazine. I've had two Canada Council grants and won the Photographic Society of America's critical writing award, the Victoria Arts Council's computer generated image award, the Victoria College of Art Award, a Bronze Medal from Trierenberg in 2017, a Silver Medal from the Toronto salon in 2018, a Gold Medal from Bardarf 2019, the Gold Award from Graphis 2019 and a Photographic Society of America Gold Medal in 2019.

Books that include my work are The Stereo Show, Object and Image by George M. Craven, Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch, Nude Closeup by EG Irwin, Trierenberg Super Circuit 2015, the Exposure Award - Dreamers Collection and The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today - Volume 5, Graphis Nude 6.