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John Gibson
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Shooting with Kurt Sorge - photo by Jean McAllister
John Gibson studied photography at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta. During those years, he was accepted as a student intern photographer at the Calgary Sun newspaper. He was hired as a staff photographer there in 1988 after shooting the Calgary Winter Olympics for the Canadian Olympic Association. At the same time, John became a freelancer for the Agence France Presse (AFP) news agency.
In 1994, he travelled to Vail, Colorado, to shoot the World Mountain Bike Championships as he began to document the growing sport of mountain biking.
He became a contributing photographer to Bike Magazine in 1996 and was later listed on the masthead as Senior Photographer, working with the publication until it ceased publishing in 2020.
In 1998, he became the team photographer for the Kona Bike Company.
In 2001, Freeride Entertainment invited John to shoot photos alongside the crew during production of their first New World Disorder film, a role that would continue through all ten movies in the series.
He later worked with Freeride Entertainment and Red Bull Media House on the films Where the Trail Ends and Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company. In May 2023, he rejoined Freeride during the filming of Brage Vestavik’s Jah Drop segment for their latest movie, Nothing’s For Free: The History of Freeride Mountain Biking.
Today, John works with editorial and commercial clients in the outdoor sports and cycling industries. When he is not photographing people riding their bikes, he pedals the trails that start outside his door in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.