Best-selling author and award winning photographer Stephen Gorman has published five large-format photography books including The American Wilderness: Journeys into Distant and Historic Landscapes; Thoreau's New England; Wild New England; Northeastern Wilds - Journeys of Discovery in the Northern Forest, which was a finalist for the IPPY Award in 2003; and Arctic Visions - Encounters at the Top of the World, which was commissioned by the Inuit of Nunavik, Canada, and which won the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award.
He has also written and photographed several other books on traditional wilderness survival skills, including The Winter Camping Handbook, originally published as Winter Camping - Wilderness Travel and Adventure in the Cold Weather Months, which has been in print continuously since 1991, has sold tens of thousands of copies, and will be released in its fourth edition by W.W. Norton in September 2016. Stephen has also photographed a 10 volume series of illustrated books for Globe-Pequot Press.
Working in the tradition of American artist-explorers such as George Catlin, Frederic Church, Thomas Moran, William Bradford, Albert Bierstadt, and William Henry Jackson, Stephen sets off into the outback for days, weeks, and even months at a time in search of striking images of the natural world and the men and women who live and work upon the land. To portray the spirit of these special people and places, Stephen uses his sharply honed photography, writing, interpersonal, and wilderness travel skills, journeying deep into remote regions, returning from each expedition with photographs that can only be created in our planet’s last truly wild and historic landscapes. His photographs are where art, science, culture, conservation, and adventure meet.
Throughout his career Stephen has worked on cultural, environmental, and adventure travel assignments for leading periodicals such as Discovery Channel Online, National Geographic Adventure, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, Sierra, Audubon, Outside, Backpacker, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Washington Times Magazine, Ski, Skiing, Powder, Wildlife Conservation, Yankee, The Boston Phoenix, Down East, Canoe & Kayak, and The Boston Herald Magazine. He has served as a member of the editorial boards of Appalachia, the world's oldest mountaineering journal, and AMC Outdoors. Stephen has been a Contributing Editor and a Field Editor for both Sports Afield Magazine and Summit Magazine, which also featured his monthly column Mountaincraft. His photographs have been widely exhibited and are in numerous private collections. Please visit www.stephengorman.com for more information.
Stephen Gorman on Expedition on the Sea Ice in the Fabled Northwest Passage, Canadian Arctic (click to enlarge).