“A Photographer’s Life.” On Monday evening, February 17th., on the campus of SUNY ORANGE in Middletown, NY, I will give a presentation spanning the last 20+ years of my career, as well as a formal exhibition of the work. I’ve been thinking the last few days about how to organize and edit down this slideshow of my personal images, as well as those made for clients and employers. Rather than simply categorizing images again in an appropriate order for the slideshow like “News, Sports, Features…”, I look to present images that say something about how my career has progressed. It’s very rewarding professionally and even humbling to be asked again to organize such an event. Almost as if you wake up one day, have your coffee, and suddenly you’re one of the senior guys on the street with some pretty serious career highlights and experiences to draw upon and share… ~cg.
*An old colleague in the business offered this support: “There is always (going to be) a huge appetite for real journalism. It takes a lot of courage to do photography – let alone photojournalism in this day. Yes, but it’s still very important, you can craft new ways…”
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.
