I got a history lesson today, and loved every minute of it. Spent a little more than two hours this afternoon photographing Lee Carr in his trailer park home, here in Orange County, NY. Mr. Carr is a former heavyweight boxer, who sparred with Muhammad Ali and was a Pan American Games Champion in 1963. Now in declining health and broke financially, Mr. Carr spoke of his heyday as an amateur and pro fighter, alcoholism, a soldier, father and grandfather. After I’d packed up my cameras and lone strobe for the portraits, all I could tell the sports writer on the way to our cars was, “Today We Hit a Home-Run…”
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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