She worked as a clapper loader for only two years until she started her position as Director of Photography for commercials, television shows, and films.
As Gibson was one of the rare females working in photography and behind the camera in her day, she built her experience based on the help and teachings of those on set around her.
Being your first feature you put your heart and soul into it” Sue Gibson, quoted from In Conversation with Cinematographers, by David A.
Sue Gibson has the legacy of holding the first female member of the British Society of Cinematographers, invited to the group in 1992.
[1] Her legacy as the first female member of the British Society of Cinematographers allowed co-worker, director Marleen Gorris, to speak highly of Gibson in an interview on the film Mrs. Dalloway, claiming she was: "the most important and only woman".