Chris Jordan uses his creative talents as a political voice. His works should invoke a horror within yourself and our nation's addictive consumption and lack of responsibility for our actions against the environment.
In his newest project, "The Message from Gyre," shot at Mitway Atoll in the North Pacific, Jordan photographed the bodies of rotting albatross birds who had apparently died from eating the toxicity found in our everyday waste. These are the contents of their stomach free of exaggeration.
"Every year tens of thousand of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking."
I strongly urge you to take a closer look at the project entitled:
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something used in the U.S : 28,000 42-gallon barrels (two minutes use); 426,000 retired cell phones (one days buildup); 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror...
The photographs create the raw substance of the numbers, making the numbers more personable as opposed to simply reading about it.
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"Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean. "
8x11 feet, in three vertical panels
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