Throughout his decades-long career, Gordon Munro has been known for his fashion photography and celebrity portraiture. He’s shot for clients including Revlon, Clinique, Judith Leber, Bill Blass, and Oscar de la Renta; his work has appeared in Interview, Time, Life, Vogue, and Bazaar, among others.

Born in Surrey, England, Gordon first learned the basics of silver printing from a chemistry teacher as a teenager. Unaware of what a career in photography might look like, he cultivated an early interest in fashion and editorial portraiture, having been inspired by the work of Antony Armstrong-Jones, and later by that of Richard Avedon, Hiro, and Irving Penn.

After working for Barry Lategan in London starting in the early 1960s, he moved to New York in 1964, where a chance meeting secured him a job with Irving Penn. It was Penn who introduced him to platinum printing during Gordon’s tenure as Studio Manager, from 1964 to 1968. At the time, Penn was developing his own unique methods in platinum and palladium.

Gordon struck out on his own as a freelance photographer in the late-1960s and continued working in New York until his retirement in 2005.

Beginning in the 1980s, Gordon began revisiting platinum and palladium printing under the guidance of Arkady Lvov, who remains a good friend and mentor to this day. Much of this work, found in the Retrospective collection, is available in limited-edition platinum.

Gordon lives in Aiken, South Carolina, with his wife, Aileen, their dog, Chester, and horse, Bonnie.