Chris jordan

Chris Jordan (born 1963) is a photographic artist who in his works presents forms of American consumerism and combines them with shocking information and examples of excessive consumption. A former…

These four artists bedazzle an especially ugly ocean problem: thousands and thousands of square miles of discarded floating plastic.

TRASH --> ART Detail shot of Chris Jordan's "Running the Numbers" Art Piece, a piece using 2.4 million pieces of plastic, the estimated amount thrown in the ocean every HOUR (and all the plastic used in the piece was collected from the Pacific Ocean itself)

Visit Chris Jordan's homepage to explore this and other projects in greater depth at: http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#building-blocks

Chris Jordan is an artist and photographer who has spent the past nine years photographing the effects of plastics on our planet. A large part of this project, and Chris’s journey to reckon with the scale of this ongoing issue, have taken place on Midway Atoll. Midway is a cluster of islands 2000 miles from the nearest

"Gyre," by cultural activist and artist, Chris Jordan. Depicts 2.4 million…

Chris Jordan is an internationally acclaimed artist and cultural activist based in Seattle. His work explores contemporary mass culture from a variety of photographic and conceptual perspectives, connecting the viewer viscerally to the enormity and power of humanity’s collective will. Edge-walking the lines between art and activism, beauty and horror, abstraction and representation, the near and the far, the visible and the invisible, his work asks us to consider our own multi-layered roles…

Chris Jordan photographs American mass consumption

sans seurat, 2007 - depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. the work of photographer chris jordan examines american