Barb Gordon, M.Photog., CR, CPP, is a nationally published and award winning photographer, entrepreneur, speaker, and author.  She has been published in the prestigious PPA Loan Collection 2006, PPA Showcase 2003, and twice named Iowa's Top Ten Photographer of the Year. Most recently, Barb was named Iowa's 2010 Master Photographer of the Year and the 2010 Professional Photographers of America Silver Level Photographer of the Year.

Barb is Marion’s only Master of Photography and the second one to obtain this level in the Cedar Rapids area.

Less than 4% of the 20,000 members in 54 countries of PPA hold the mark of excellence of Certified Professional Photographer.

Barb is a member of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), Professional Photographers of Iowa, Northeast Iowa Professional Photographers which she organized in 1990, and has served in many offices.

Barb serves on the alumni board for the photography department for Hawkeye Community College where she graduated in 1985 with her AA degree in Portrait Photography.

She has been locally honored by YWCA Tribute to Women of Achievement in 2001 and Advanced Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003.  Barb owns Gordon Photography & Gallery in Marion, Iowa specializing in customized portrait art.

In August 2009, Barb founded the Portraits & Stories website. She is the photographer for this inspiring project which is telling cancer survivors’ stories through images.