Recent Work. April – June, 2014.
The new job, and a few trips into New York. Here’s a brief look at what’s caught my attention the past 2 months or so… ~cg.
“A trip to the City always results in good pictures…” April 2014
Made my way into midtown Manhattan yesterday, mainly on the continual job hunt to drop off promotional materials with editors and the ever present quick stop into B&H Photo. Found my way into Times Square and managed to make a few decent images. It’s never been hard to make pictures in New York. If it […]
Recent Video Work:
In today’s multimedia work environment, publications and clients operate on a 24-hour news cycle, each with their own blogs, websites, Twitter feeds & FaceBook pages that continually need images and video. Editors and potential clients need to see that a photojournalist can produce & edit video. Here’s a sampling of some of my video work […]
“Back Out There…” Nov. 2013
It’s been a little more than two weeks since “The Turk” delivered the abrupt news that I’d be out of a job, along with three other staff photographers, and three longtime editors at the newspaper I’d worked at for nearly 7 years here in New York. Ironically, that’s more time on staff at this paper […]
“Ten Years Ago – Today…” New York, NY. 14•Aug.•03
Hard to believe it’s been ten years on, since the NorthEast and parts of 11 states in total, if memory serves (as I’m not looking to search the web entirely for all the particulars just now) were crippled by a major blackout, caused by a tree falling onto power lines somewhere in Ohio. That damage […]
Richie Havens: 1941 – 2013
I photographed Richie Havens back in the Winter of 2003 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, during one of the largest anti-war demonstrations against the Iraq Invasion. Havens (72) passes away in Jersey City, NJ on Monday. He was well known as the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, where he played […]
“Happy Birthday, Grand Central…” February 2013
The grandest room in New York, Grand Central Terminal is 100 years old this weekend. I’ve been following the history and some of the back story of this majestic landmark structure in mid-town Manhattan, and wanted to dig out this image of mine made with the 10.5mm fisheye a few years ago… ~cg. Passengers on […]
*”On thoughts of making the same image…” June 2012
When I was just starting my career, a senior colleague at a daily newspaper on the NJ Shore where I was a freelancer, made it a point to explain to me that, “There are no new pictures, just old pictures done in a new way…” I never forgot that morsel of guidance, so when an […]
September 11, 2001. – "My Day Ten Years Ago…"
SPECIAL TO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS– American Airlines aircraft sit idle at the gate at Boston’s Logan International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Logan was the airport where two of the four hijacked planes took off from, both hitting the World Trade Center in New York. (Chet Gordon for the NY Daily News/THE IMAGE WORKS) […]
September 11, 2001. – "Now It’s Been Ten Years…"
An American flag flies atop the crumbling facade of the south tower of the World Trade Center’s South Tower on Monday, September 24, 2001. A terrorist attack on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001 destroyed to the two worldwide known icons in lower Manhattan when two jetliners struck the towers. The facade was brought down by […]
September 11th. – Ten Years On… Highland Falls, NY 11•Aug.•11
Detail of a 7 foot, 1,500lb. I – Beam section from the wreckage of the World Trade Center, after it arrived at the Village Green in Highland Falls, NY on Thursday, August 11, 2011. The beam will be formally dedicated during a ceremony on September 11th. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
Same-Sex Marriage Law Passes in New York. 24•June•11
Back in 2004, during my time as a photo-editor at the NY Daily News, I covered the first gay weddings in the country performed by a then 20-something mayor, Jason West. It caused quite a stir nationally and even internationally, as the small village green was a media circus… ~cg. NEW PALTZ, NY. JoAnne Still […]
"The Company You Keep…" NYC 13•June•2011
Yours truly on the right joining photographers Daniel Morel (L) of Haiti and Tatiana Cardeal (C) of Brazil, outside Nations Cafe, in the shadow of the United Nations on East 49th. St. and 1st. Ave. in New York, NY on Monday, June 13, 2011. Morel is the 2011 World Press Photo Award winner for his […]
"The East Side." New York, NY. 13•June•11 6:48PM
NEW YORK, NY. An elderly man with a walker is helped out of a taxi cab on East 49th. Street in New York, NY on Monday, June 13, 2011. © www.chetgordon.com/blog
