Haven’t been feeling too good the past few days, so it’s been a good opportunity to finally get around to doing a deeper edit of my work in Nigeria last December. With daytime temperatures here in New York expected to only reach into the low-mid 20’s, and single digits at night during the week, this image kept reappearing in my head. You know, that beautiful equatorial light, West African clear blue skies with low humidity and the thermometer consistently ranging between the high 80’s to low 90’s everyday… ~cg.
KANO, NIGERIA. A Kabo Air Boeing 747 aircraft parked at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria on Friday, December 7, 2012. © Chet Gordon/THE IMAGE WORKS
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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