My friend & colleague Daniel Morel of Haiti wins his copyright infringement case against picture agencies AFP & Getty Images in US Federal Court in Manhattan. Read more about the case & verdict: HERE.
Photojournalist Daniel Morel (2nd. from left) with his legal team (L – R): lead attorney Joseph Baio, Morel, and attorneys Phyllis Galembo and Emma James outside the Thurgood Marshall US Federal Courthouse in New York on Friday, November 22, 2013. Morel was awarded $1.22 million in the willful copyright infringement case Morel v. AFP and Getty Images. © Jeremy Nicholl
Morel won two the 2011 World Press Photo Awards for his coverage of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and talks about the work in a interview here:
Image © Daniel Morel/Photomorel, courtesy of the photographer.
My longtime friend and colleague, Daniel Morel has won two World Press Photo Awards in the 2011 
competition held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You may know his iconic image above as Daniel, a Haitian photographer created the first images after the earthquake struck in Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. His images were seen around the world in the days following the devastating earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people, and left upwards of 1.5 million people homeless. His images ran in newspapers and magazines around the world, and were broadcast on international TV news channels as well. Daniel was awarded a 2nd. place in News (Singles) for the image of the woman crawling out of the rubble (above) and a 1st. Place in News (Stories – below) for a collection of his images just after the earthquake that first day. I’ve known Daniel for nearly 20 years, after our first meeting in Haiti back in 1993, on my first international shooting assignment with two other colleagues. I caught up with Daniel in his Port-au-Prince hotel last January, two weeks after the earthquake, while I was there working for longtime client Operation Smile. ~cg.
Oloffson Hotel. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Saturday, January 30, 2010.
Portfolio editing w/ Daniel in my apartment. Newburgh, NY. May 2008.
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.
