Tom Gore has worked as a photographer ever since spending a summer in the mid sixties photographing in eight European countries. He joined the University of Victoria in the seventies to run what became the Advanced Imaging Laboratory. At the same time Gore curated fifty photographic exhibitions at Open Space Gallery, consulted for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, wrote many articles for Arts West Magazine and taught photojournalism in the UVic Writing Department.

He continues to photograph and exhibit and been published in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Subjects of his photography include English 18th century gardens, Venice, Rome and old Paris while recent work is mostly computer based. Gore has served on the boards of the Communication Arts Society, the Society for Photographic Education, the Professional Employees Association and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. He has written and edited a number of books about photography and has received several Canada Council grants.