These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
Tag: Chris Jordan
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Chris Jordan – current work
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Video Pick: Chris Jordan’s “Midway,” on Beauty in Environmental Activism
Chris Jordan, the photographer and conservationist, has spent his career exploring the harmful consequences of our thoughtless consumption and the pollution we create, while also making images that are often eerily beautiful. At the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National Conference in New Orleans on March 13, he showed a trailer and clips from “Midway,” inspired by his years photographing the albatrosses of the Midway Atoll, located in the north Pacific 2000 miles from the nearest continent. Jordan and a film crew have documented the birds mating, laying eggs, and also dying as a result of having consumed plastic garbage from the ocean. Many choke to death, gasping for air on the shore; others die from toxicity or from starvation when their stomachs become full of indigestible materials.
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Chris Jordan – Miracles and Tragedies: Conveying the Wonder of Life Through Photographs | LensCulture
Miracles and Tragedies: Conveying the Wonder of Life Through Photographs – Photographs by and interview with Chris Jordan | LensCulture
Inspirational artist Chris Jordan shares his views on the power of photography — “Art has always made an immeasurably important difference in human culture, and right now might be the most potent time ever for the arts to contribute to the healing and tra
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/chris-jordan-miracles-and-tragedies-conveying-the-wonder-of-life-through-photographs
But perhaps the most mysterious part for me is the way the medium can transmit feeling. Digital cameras record millions of tiny electrical signals that get sent down wires and through multiple computers; and yet somehow the feeling of the photographer’s relationship with the subject can make it through that whole process intact. For me that is one of the greatest powers of photography—to convey relationships, which for me, are all about reverence.
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Prix Pictet 2011 Chris Jordan
40, 000 dollars Pictet Commission goes to the US photographer Chris Jordan to undertake a field trip to Northern Kenya.
Link: Prix Pictet 2011 Chris Jordan | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers « The PhotoBook
Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers
Copyright Chris Jordan 2009 courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery and Prestel Verlag In the Old Testament of the Bible, there are the numerous stories of the Prophets who have an unpopular message for their…
via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/chris-jordan-running-the-numbers/
The ability to visual changes is a central issue for Chris Jordan when had attempted to grasp and illustrate the environmental issues of waste. He was finding there was not an effective way to actually visualize what was occurring. It is difficult to comprehend the relationship between being an individual consumer and what the potential accumulation of that consumption might actually look like. Thus he created a series of images based on using individual objects, that when compiled into a larger image in conjunction with an identifying caption, could help us understand what the Big Picture might look like. That at the core is what his recent book Running the Numbers, an American Self-Portrait is attempting to help us comprehend.
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Chris Jordan on Bill Moyers Journal
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS:
Photographic Artist Chris Jordan turns the statistics of consumerism into palpable images in his new photo series.
via Jason
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Prisoners as Waste: The Photography of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan has spent his time making larger and larger photographic constructions to communicate the scale at which American society wastes its resources, its environmental future and its grasp on logic. In his effort to catalogue the linear and thoughtless waste of the US, he has progressed from crushed automobiles, to cell phone chargers, to polystyrene cups to American prisoners.
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Beck and Chris Jordan – Time Bomb – Horses Think
Beck and Chris Jordan have collaborated on a music video using still images from Jordan’s Running the Numbers series.
Check it out here.
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32,000 Barbies: photo-based statistical art – lens culture photography weblog
Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan has a provocative and thoughtful approach to using photo-based art to underline the excesses of human consumption and other atrocities. His series, Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, uses cleverly designed huge images to convey the vastness of waste and other ridiculous human behavior.
Barbie Dolls, 2008, 60″x80″, depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006
Check it out here.