Spent about 10 hours yesterday waiting to make this image of yet another homicide victim here in my town. Yea, it’s the Holidays and all that, but to me, the news just doesn’t wait. Beginning to wonder what’s in store for us on many levels in the coming New Year…? ~cg.
Newburgh Police Department Crime Scene Investigators and funeral home workers remove Everton Marcus Fray’s body from 155 Chambers Street in Newburgh, NY on Thursday, December 23, 2010. Fray of Jamaica and Schenectady, NY is the city’s 11th. homicide this year. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
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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