“Been there. Done that. Got it on film…” *(well, you know what I mean…)
RED SQUARE. MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION. June 9, 2005. In Moscow during my fourth trip to Russia, preparing to leave on a two-week Trans-Siberian Railway journey across the country.
VLADIVOSTOK. RUSSIAN FEDERATION. June 19, 2005. Touching the marker at the endpoint of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 9,288 kilometers (5,771 miles) from Moscow, after completing an 11-day journey on trains across the Russian Federation.
WASHINGTON, DC. Sept. 14, 2004. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where the words, "I Have a Dream" are engraved into the marble, at the spot where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech in 1963.
HARTSDALE, NY. May 19, 2004. During the annual birthday pilgrimage to the gravesite of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) and his wife, Betty Shabazz.
Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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