About Stephen Gorman

“For more than two decades, American photographer Stephen Gorman has traveled with Inuit companions across the North American Arctic to document the environment and culture at the top of the world. These images highlight the importance of maintaining Inuit traditions and the Inuit connection to Nature while adapting to cultural and environmental change.” - United States Department of State.

Stephen Gorman is an internationally recognized photographer and best-selling author. His work focuses on relationships between humans and the world of nature. Gorman’s books include The American Wilderness: Journeys into Distant and Historic Landscapes; and Northeastern Wilds: Journeys of Discovery in the Northern Forest. Arctic Visions: Encounters at the Top of the World was commissioned by The Inuit of Nunavik and won the Benjamin Franklin Award.  Throughout his career, Gorman has worked on cultural and environmental assignments for leading periodicals such as National Geographic, Audubon, and Sierra. His most recent exhibition, Down to the Bone, at the Peabody Essex Museum, was a collaboration with beloved New Yorker artist Edward Koren in response to the global environmental and climate crisis. In 2017 Gorman was the only American photographer whose work was chosen by the State Department for display in Eyes on the Arctic: U.S. / Canadian Cooperation in the North, which toured to the United States Embassy in Ottawa and Consulates across Canada. Last Days Of The Great Ice is the first solo traveling museum exhibition of photographs by Stephen Gorman.