Ann Orman is a travel and commercial photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. She started her photographic career as a fine art photographer while still working in the commercial world. Then at the age of 39, Ann fully immersed herself in photography, moving to Paris for two years to study commercial photography and travel, including spending two months in Africa.

Ann has had five solo exhibitions and eight group exhibitions, winning an award in New York for her Paradise series in 2020. Also in 2020, she published a large coffee table book called SPIRIT – Conversations with Creative Women. A celebration of 34 New Zealand female artists, the purpose of the book is to ignite other women’s passions for their arts and to enable them to make a living from it. More recently, Ann has published 23 travel books. Travel and discovering different cultures are one of her primary passions.

Books and printed images are an important part of Ann’s portfolio, with their ability to visually express who you are as a photographer. Her passion for photographing people, cultures, and landscapes from around the world is evident in Ann’s work.