I have been taking photographs since the 1970s.

My first love in photography was making black and white prints in the darkroom from the negatives I created with a Nikon F. Thirty years later, I jumped ship to digital and I now see the world through my Canon R7.

What do I like to photograph? Any person, place, or thing that catches my attention and, in my opinion, deserves to be captured.

I owe it all to my father, John Gorman -- my inspiration and photographer extraordinaire.

Nancy Robinson

John Gorman

Over a career span of more than six decades, the bulk of John Gorman's thousands of photographs are black and white. From his Kodak Brownie camera days in the 1930s, to the U.S. Army in WWII as a Signal Corps photographer, to the San Francisco Examiner newspaper, John's photographs were decisive, informative and beautiful. He was never without a camera, even on his days off.

Color images played a large part in John Gorman's career as well. He was a principle photographer for the San Francisco Examiner's "California Living" Sunday section for many years. There was no subject that he couldn't master, be it architecture, fashion, scenics, aerial, (he was a licensed pilot), portrait, news, or human interest

John Gorman loved filmmaking as much as still photography. One of his greatest gifts was an acute attention to detail; the other was his wry sense of humor. Both are evident in the movies he made.

Photographer, Filmmaker, Writer, Golfer, Pilot, and Family Man
1920 - 2005