World affairs photojournalist and correspondent, 43, with 14 years experience in over 25 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas—covering news, culture, economic issues , performing arts and editorial portraiture. Covered civil wars and armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serb Republic, ethnic hostilities in Burundi, and the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico. Former Latin Trade contributor and staff photographer at La Nacion Daily in Argentina. Former strategic policy analyst for ISSA/Defense & Foreign Affairs/Strategic Policy, and former correspondent for Chronicles Magazine. Specializes in Balkan history.

Gordon’s visual media study, Media War, has been shown in the US and Europe. Media War was presented at the Strategy 2005 conferences in Washington, DC to an audience of intelligence and defense officials from 24 countries. It is the most extensive study to date of the role of the visual image in the Western media in influencing public opinion in coverage of the Balkan wars. It was created over 12 years of studies and observations by Russell Gordon.

Gordon’s photography is represented by the agencies Aurora Photos, Das Fotoarchiv, Latin Stock Mexico, and Danita Delimont, among other agencies. He has been published in thousands of publications worldwide.