There has been a lot of discussion concerning the use of photography in painting. Should painters work from life, direct observation, or is it OK to use photographs as a source for their work? This exhibition raises quite the opposite question---photographs based on paintings. I am being a bit unfair as Shore’s photographs are not an attempt to directly copy Claude Monet’s paintings of his famous garden at Giverny in France into photographs. However, it is quite impossible to photograph the gardens at Giverny without invoking Monet’s paintings and this is not a bad thing. In fact, Shore was commissioned in 1977 by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to photograph the gardens following their just completed extensive restorations. He did so over the following six years and this exhibition is of twenty-five photographs from that series. They are a collection given to the gallery by Dr. John Krawczyk of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.